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THE EVOLUTION 

OF 

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL 
SCIENCE 

IN A 

NATURAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE, 

vs. 

THE THEORIES AND FALLACIES 

i >i 

POPULAR MEDICINE 



J. I). Stillman, M. D. 

St. Louis, Mo. 



1893 
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Copyrighted 1893 by J. D. Siillman 




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TO 

DAVID JEWETT MOODY, 

' m.-rly of bOWSLU Mass.] 

A FK..ND 01 ,; ARS WHOSE RARE - I MAY SAV HEROIC - INDEPENDENT 

HARACTER CHEERED AND INSPIRED, AND WHOSE 
CLEAR JUDGMENT MATERIALLY 
AIDED MY LABOR. 



The Basis of Medical Science. 



The phenomena of progress is a subject of great interest to 
the philanthropist, especially from the fact that in all ages there 
has been manifested a spirit of opposition against all changes 
that tend to disturb institutions that have been the growth of 
centuries. 

The pioneers of knowledge have always been forced to meet 
this opposition in the form of intolerance which greatly prevented 
the opportunities for the advance of truth. 

Authoritative bigotry and selfishness have ruled mankind 
with an iron rod that has perpetuated a mental slavery which has 
kept the world in ignorance and chains. 

The struggles of philosophy against assumptions have ex- 
posed its devotees to a relentless warfare of ignoble passion that 
has caused them to become martyrs to the truths of science in 
every age. Socrates, in the philosophy of reason, Christ, in the 
philosophy of religion and Copernicus in the philosophy of the 
laws of the universe have each felt what every pioneer of new 
truths have suffered from the tyranical persecutions of perverted 
selfishness and passion in the name of authority and law. They 
maintained a devoted heroism against public opinion, and torture 
both mental and physical, because they were noble in natures 
that were conscious that life was a failure if it did not subserve 
the great end of existence to put truth forward as the most valu- 
able means of progress and happiness. They trusted to a pro- 
gressive illumination of the mind to overcome the stratified pre- 
judice of centuries that would bring to their followers trophies of 



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victory over ignorance, selfishness and passion. Since the spirit 
of liberty has developed science in the world, the intellectual 
conceptions have become so enlarged that progressive tolerance 
has been the result. 

The freedom of the press and speech have aroused an in- 
terest in a great variety ot subjects that had heretofore escaped 
tigation. With this onward march of progress the fields are 
constantly opening for the advance of new ideas through the 
anal) tical progress of science which is producing utilizing changes 
in the world. Political economy is chiefly nourished as a neces 
growth among free institutions and republican forms of 
rnment, to institute laws that will meet the demands of the 
human nature and elevate the aspirations for the welfare and 
ppiness of mankind. 
Sociologists are working out the problems of society to 
unify the race by equalizing the blessings of production, to des- 
troy those class distinctions that create the spirit of opposition 
ami restlessness in the passionate elements of human nature 
which prevent contentment and peace. 

Education is giving a larger culture to the whole nature 
that is more practical and benencient to society. 

Religion is less fettered with authoritative restraints that 
corrupted pure principles, and hindered ethical influences 
renovating the evils of society and establishing the sanctity 
oi noble amis and pure purposes in every department of life. 

M< ( nanism and the arts have advanced from the discoveries 

• that have evolved a greater manifestation of the powers 

th.it tend to Utility and improvement. The antiseptic 

: modern chemistry have produced rapid strides in 

ss. 

with the view to make medicine more certain and suc- 

ling m a revolution of its principles and precedents 

following presentation of the methods that 

nee ami nature demand to place it upon a dignified and en- 



during basis where no failures are necessary in the treatment of 
disease. 

Science works destructive havoc with old systems ; it grad- 
ually honeycombs their structures and undermines their founda- 
tions until they sooner or later fall, though their ruins may be 
preserved as the relics of antiquated ignorance. But the icono- 
clastic axe must be sharp and powerful blows become necessary 
to level the giant oaks of prejudice against the innovations of 
progress which science always institutes in correcting the errors 
of the past. From science in medicine we must expect destruc- 
tive changes, for it has in other arts banished old methods into 
forgetfulness for new methods, so it will be in the art of healing 
the sick. 

The coach and four has yielded to the locomotive which is 
destined to yield to the electric motor. Oil lamps yielded to gas, 
as gas is now yielding to electrical illumination. 

The machinery of the world is becoming more perfect from 
year to year, while the rubbish of old inventions are rusting to 
give place to the new, that are the results of the onward march 
of science. 

New Inventions of Natural and Certain Remedies are necessary 
in medicine to keep it abreast with the age of improvement, 
otherwise the discoveries in cellular pathology in ptomaines and 
bacteria will be of no practical importance and no wonderful 
success will be achieved. 

The Theory Of Medicine that disease like error should be 
combatted by penal measures dissipates the more rational phil- 
osophy of overcoming evil with good. All disease is only a de- 
parture from nature's inherent laws of rectitude ; but that de- 
monical idealization of them as evil spirits to be banished, was 
a primitive ideal starting point in medicine that has produced 
untold mischief, as it has its following in the use of poisons as a 
combative construction, that they destroy the evil spirit of dis- 
ease in the body. 



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The Enlightened Reason of Science gives us an enlarged and 

definite conception of the forces of nature, intelligence and life ! 
that is a light which dissipates the old vagaries of ignorant dark- 
ness that cloud the understanding of those who cling to the un- 
solvable mysteries of virtue in poisons and severe medicine. 

As difficult as it may be to overcome the prestige of time 
honored precedents and the medical literature of false instruction 
founded upon them, especially among those maintaining a pride 
and selfish interest in the curriculum of the medical colleges, yet 
this fact is presented to the intelligent investigator that science 
is leading every thoughtful and intelligent physician farther and 
farther from the dogmas of the past into new paths that lead to 
nature, which are comparatively more numerous than those 
already known. 

To the Ardent Lover of Mankind the aspect is joyful that the 
gloom and despondency of suffering is yet to be exchanged for 
a cheerful hope in that progress of natural medicine which will 
banish from the word the sorrows of disease by administering 
such a reconstructing aid to nature that all may be able to escape 
from the progressive evils and devastations of poisons from within 
and from medicines. 

Science is Expanding the Intellect to seek new methods of 

ration into the heretofore hidden processes of life, and to 

powerful natural agencies that are available to increase vital 

v and to remove the obstructions that produce disease 

wIik h are in accord with the laws of helpfulness to every instinct 

of Life which are wonderful in their effects. 

In the presentation of the principles and demonstrations of 

exact we have no use for the general literature as all 

: ies point to the significant fact that all heal- 

ults from the forces that are evolved by changes 

thai take pla< <• in the matter. 

The Conclusion is Inevitable that the human system must be 
.1 natural chemical laboratory where all changes 



are controlled by the laws that pertain generally to the compli- 
cated elements of which the matter of the body is composed. 
The salts of the soil become the salts of the system which are 
modified by the elements in air and water, all of which are sus- 
tenance that connects life with the inorganic world. 

The Solution Of Life or a healthy activity of all its func- 
tions is the supreme problem for the scientific physician to solve. 
It involves the consideration of all the forces that are produced 
in the changes of matter upon which development and health 
are dependent. Science alone can give us that knowledge that 
will be philosophical and reliable in raveling the mysteries of 
health and disease, as it gives us light to invent proper medicine. 
The machinery of life consists of those complex functional oper- 
ations that reduce organic matter to its ultimates with their 
most attenuated conditions of attraction and repulsion, to keep 
up the cleansing and building forces of life. Poisons in all con- 
ditions of attenuation awaken the defensive instinctive forces of 
life, and the battle is often decisive against nature, especially 
when the poisonous forces of decomposition in disease are aug- 
mented by the poisonous forces of medicine. Then often the 
warriors mass into legions to invade every portal and destroy the 
armies of life as they take their citadel and raise the black flag 
of death. 

There is no More Divine Voice than the preservative instincts 

that represent the harmonious will of nature, in life, and there is 
no law more sacred than those laws that govern the consecutive 
changes of nutrition that develop life, hence an intelligent and 
conscientious warfare for the rights of life is a duty we owe our 
natures that the penalties of transgression may be prevented. 

Incongruous as it may seem, it is nevertheless a fact that 
popular medical systems claim the basis of truth while they 
depend upon theory instead of Demonstrated Facts of 
Science. The ablest defenders of medicine do not claim that 
it has ever possessed any real primitive basis of certainty, by 



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which it mu Imitted that it was never founded upon 

th< QStrations of science or the problems of life, and 

re lay no claims to scientific methods. Such a delu- 
11 () f P 1 to science, has tended to prevent bold inves- 

tigations of an analytical character, that would compare the 
lations of diseased actions and processes from their incep- 
tion to their sequence, with the perfect condition of healthy 
ph< in every pan oi the human system. 

Medical Therapeutics depending upon the materia medica of 
"i" J poisons have always been stumbling blocks in the 

paths of inductive science, because the remedies are generally for- 
D to the demands of the human system; hence, there could be 
no explainable reason why one poison of medicine could be des- 
tructive to another poison of disease, or why poisons that cause 
a defensive over-action that always exhaust and lessen vital 
vers as they lessen thus the sufferings by overcoming vital sen- 
sibility, should be used by any but reckless experimenters. 

Sunshine Favors Life because it is the embodiment of the at- 

1 flow of the ethereal concentrated infinitesimal elements 

fon <• which pass through our atmosphere from the 

solar changes have prepared them for organic absorp- 

■ tricity, heat and light are life giving powers 

!li '- ethereal ultimate forces of matter they represent. 

The Universal Force of Life is dependent upon the atteniiative 

matter that progressively develop its ethereal subtle- 

LS their ultimate conditions as they enter into or- 

< < 'institutions. 

The Evolution of Organic Force from the changes of matter 

thin the body and without, is only a link in the chain of 

v - h " '' make life a necessity of favorable condi- 

Hie progressive attenuative changes 

motion and luat is the only basis for a 

1 the problem of life, the change of solids 

i into ethereal forces of 



life are both evolving and creative in the development of the in- 
telligence inherent in the atoms of matter that institutes the order 
that governs the whole universe by the laws of nature. 

Evolution is the Result of the Economic Reason which is the sover- 
eign will of the intelligence of atoms that controls all changes of 
matter and force in life. Food, water, air and electricity are only 
named conditions of elements of matter upon which life and in- 
telligence are dependent as a planetary phenomena. 

Food Contains the Same Elements of Power that Explosives Pos- 
sess but by a larger range of combination they are general and 
necessarily comprehensive and extensive in forces ; they are di- 
versified in a powerful manner to keep up a complexity of oper- 
ations in the human system, the sum of which may well engage 
our reverence for the powers and the intense energy of the vital 
forces of circulation. 

Water, simply by the influence of heat, has a progressive ex- 
pansive power, but it does not find its climax in steam, for when 
it becomes so attenuated that it is decomposed into its oxygen and 
hydrogen gases it demonstrates the most marvelous evolutions 
of force. When the force resulting from gaseous changes of 
fluids and of gaseous attenuation is generally distributed to 
the complex operations of life, where these changes take 
place in the operations of millions of cells in the tissues of 
the human system in which both alterative reconstructed 
processes are maintained, there is an inconceivable dis- 
play of energy which makes life seem so mysterious to the 
most educated and expanded minds. The value of water 
becomes wonderful. It is the vehicle of the solvent elements 
of nutrition and of waste products. Water dissolves the 
salts of the blood that further the rapidity of change which 
is a prime factor in the sum of the energies of life, as it is the 
provmce of salts in explosives. Hence mineral waters are in a 
measure beneficial and the more so as they contain such saline 
properties as the human system requires. Restorative medicines 



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are only perfect when they also contain only just such acid and 
alkaline elements as are natural to the blood and that further 
the attenuative changes of nutrition which produce the vital 
forces necessary to maintain all healthy conditions. 

There is no such Thing as Absolute Rest in Nature or Life, a 
fact which should be recognized in regard to human organisms 
as manifested by the attractive and repellent forces, the one pre- 
paring for the needs of the body, and the other taking away use- 
less particles of matter as debris in the workshop of life. Debris 
must not be suffered to accumulate to hinder formative opera- 
tions by which new life is constantly superceding the old in the 
struggle for existence. This constant repair medical intelligence 
should aid for the survival of all that is fittest, through the phys- 
iological adaption of all that is required to perpetuate the high- 
est condition of life by reconstructive medicines as well as 
proper nutriment. 

The Study Of Food which has most value and is most 
thoroughly digested with the least tax upon the powers 
that bring it to its highest condition of use, becomes important, 
for the conservation ot energy is the key of success to the suc- 
cessful physician, who should also learn that his medicines should 
always be vitalizing and restorative, as well as alterative and ex- 
pulsatory, that all the forces of life shall be preserved and that 
they should only accomplish what is necessary to aid nature in 
her legitimate natural operations to get the mastery over disease. 
The human system prepares and appropriates nutriment for the 
successive changes it undergoes through the several functions 
to develop habits of action which we call vital force. This force 
clears away the rubbish as it replenishes the store houses all 
along the way of life up to the brain, where the perfected climax 
of this power accumulates to control formative and alterative 
processes, both physical and mental, called the "vis medicatrix 
natura," through the nerves of involuntary motion and selection. 
The preservation of this force is ihe most important work of 'ihe 



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scientific physician, which requires chemical and physiological 
skill in the adjustment of such food and medicine as fully will 
secure this object, involving a sacred responsibility to the laws 
that govern human life. 

Alcoholic Stimulants are a class of deceptive agents which 
physicians can no longer claim fulfills this purpose, since 
Sir Ashley Cooper and Dr. Benjamin Richardson have 
demonstrated that liquors paralyze the minute capillary 
vessels that always become congested, which gradually de- 
stroys the power they naturally possess to keep up circulation ; 
thus stimulants impoverish and change the tissues to produce 
disease by preventing both formative and alterative processes. 
The use of liquors produces heat which accelerates activity by 
the combustion of the hydro-carbon elements, this exhausts the 
oxygen from the blood and thus checks the natural oxygenic 
changes of life and leaves the deadly carbonic acid gas and other 
refuse products in the system, the same as the lamp leaves the 
deadly vapor and the lamp-black in the room where it burns. 
These products clog the brain, the nerves and tissues of all or- 
gans that maintain life, they reduce the normal oxygenic and 
electrical supply of the nerves, that thus induces still more their 
cry for aid which the deluded victim interprets must be secured 
by renewing stimulated activity, which only leaves accumulated 
burdens to still more increase the desire for the transient effects 
they produce. 

Alcohol is only one of the many remedies unnatural to the 
system that produce exhaustion and abnormal appetites, simply 
because they have only afforded palliative relief to present suf- 
fering without restorative nourishment. 

Cathartics palliate costiveness, but they tend to increase 
habitual constipation by an overaction of nerves to produce 
a lessening of intestinal circulation which creates a con- 
stant demand for them from the induced intestinal inactivity 
that is the result of their use ; opiates palliate suf- 



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fering and sleeplessness but exhaustion results from their 
use, and they are continued as a habitual expediency be- 
cause they produce a temporary morbid excitement or sooth- 
ing of the nervous system, opiates become more and more 
sought for by those who well know that they finally add to the 
suffering which follows the nervous exhaustion produced by 
them, but they repeat and continue to repeat their use until 
they become slaves to an unconquerable appetite which is an 
induced necessity. 

Tonics Also Increase an Activity They do not Nourish or Sus- 
tain ; consequently they, too, induce the habit of whipping up 
the nerves they overtax, until the nervous system by degrees 
looses its natural activity, consequently all functions suffer from 
this loss of power snd general debility becomes the result of the 
protracted use, as nervous diseases become the natural conse- 
quence. 

All Specifics which are not natural or restorative, or do 
not supply the power they increase, are vain expedients that, 
like goads and spurs to an already jaded steed, retard the nor- 
mal rate of the speed of action when the excitant is withdrawn, 
which stimulates to cause exhaustion. 

A Thorough Scientific Education is far more necessary for 
the physician than for any other professional artist, as it is 
indispensable to the progressive student of nature. It over- 
comes the narrow contracted tendency to depend upon the 
opinions and theories of departed and deceived genera- 
tions, as it inclines one to pursue those analytical methods 
of inquiry that tend to bring reasonable satisfaction for the 
efforts to place medical science upon a demonstrative foun- 
dation. The physician, like the accountant, should be skilled in 
those exact methods that will enable him to present a balance 
sheet, to prove that his credits and debits as well as his 1 
and gains to nature, have been truly estimated. When a poison- 
ous drug has produced obvious injurious effects, so that death 



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is the manifest result, it may awaken the fear of remorse or a 
conscientious caution in the theoretic use of poisons, but only to 
the carefully educated analytical investigator does the consider- 
ation avail that any remedy that benumbs, stupefies and de- 
stroys the power of reaction in the critical stages of disease, in- 
terposes an exceeding dangerous thrust against the jaded forces 
of life. They are often reduced by degrees to such a low condi- 
tion of activity that the smallest doses often terminate the feeble 
activities that are struggling persistently to maintain life. The 
great failure of medicine is still the same as forages past, he- 
cause it deals chiefly with symptoms and effects, instead of the 
main causes that exist, which are always the foundation of the 
complex variations of disease. 

Specific. medication deals with the branches and the fruits 
instead of laying the ax at the root of the tree to remove all 
caw es of disease from the system. Physicians are wonderfully 
wise in cellular pathology, in the destructive action of ptomaines, 
and study all the varieties of spores and bacteria that are pro- 
pagated in the field of fluids and tissues, but they neglect the 
most curative measures of purification that prevent the sources 
of all these enemies of life in filthy fluids. They neglect the 
study of all the complex operations and progressive processes 
of life to the end that they should aid nature to conquer her foes 
through the knowledge that organic science has placed within 
their reach which is certain and effectual. They fail to analyze 
the symptoms of diseases or to trace them to their legitimate cause, 
that it may be removed, so that every function may be scrupulouslv 
guarded from harm by removing all sources of evil. The body 
has a natural tendency to purify its own fluids if the main sewer 
is kept in an active condition of progressive expulsion so that the 
clogging of this large channel is to be prevented if other channels 
that empty into it are expected to be also cleansed and the work 
of producing disease overcome. The large quantity of decom- 
posing filth that is possible to accumulate in the intestinal tract 



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should never be disregarded for not only the kidneys and skin 
are rendered inactive by it, but also every vital organ is subject 
to its derangements. The blood is corrupted by it as well as 
the secretions and fluids of the whole system, they are rendered 
turbid and tend to decomposition if a putrescent fermentation 
of a large amount of fluids are the result of their retention from 
some form of inactivity or constipation in some part of the 
bowels. 

When the pores of the skin have become inactive the appli- 
cation of soap and water with brisk rubbing will restore ob- 
structed circulation and bring a color to the surface, which is to 
be considered, both medical and mechanical, as means important 
to health. When the bowels become obstructed and loose ac- 
tivity and circulation in their tissues, antiseptic, solvent, 
strengthening cathartic fluids, with kneading and rubbing be- 
comes quite as important to cleanse their internal surfaces. 
They arouse obstructed circulation and thus restore muscular 
contractile elasticity which is always imperative in securing the 
vibratory wave motion of the foul intestinal gases downwards. 
Decomposing gases are always offensive and poisonous to the 
nervous sensibilities of the vital organs. They accumulate and 
extend to the upper part of the body and the brain through the 
channels and cavities from filth. The objection which is gener- 
ally used against saline cathartics for this purpose, that they thin 
the blood, is easily remedied by adding solving antiseptic and re- 
storative agents. 

Calomel Contains Great Solvent Power, because by the in- 
ternal combinations with the chlorine of salt and the diges- 
tive juices corrosive sublimate is the result, which is power- 
fully antiseptic to internal filth. It is due to these two proper- 
ties that it has been considered a powerful remedy, but it is a 
fierce warrior because from the power that is in proportion to the 
chlorine that combines with it to cause harm can never be known 



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or controlled. Consequently when its sword is drawn the friends 
of life as well as her foes fall in the conflict. 

There is no longer any valid reason why it should be de- 
pended upon, or used in any form on account of its alterative 
power when its danger is so great from the constant changes it 
is liable to undergo to make it a powerful disorganizer of natural 
processes, as well as the tissues of every organ and of every part 
of the human frame, because powerful and harmless solvent and 
antiseptic agents have been discovered which are perfectly safe. 
Their use in combination with restorative adjuvitants is only a 
matter of chemical knowledge and enterprise to supercede so 
dangerous an agent as mercury, which in its various forms has 
consigned millions of human beings to years of suffering and an 
untimely grave because it is a brutal and pitiless scavenger. 
Cathartics that produce nausea and griping pains, irritate the 
nerves of the intestinal tract which increases peristaltic and 
spasmodic action of the muscles. The action is unequal from 
the disproportion of the circulation of the blood in the several 
portions of the bowels. 

The Pressure of Constipation Benumbs, so that one portion is 
much less sensitive than another, and suffering is greatly ag- 
gravated thereby because the constipated portion having lost 
contractile power resists the contractile action of the more active 
and sensitive parts, so that spasm and pain is the inevitable con- 
sequence. This interaction of the sensitive nerves produces their 
exhaustion and lessens their power, so that the more such cathar- 
tics are used the less normal is the sensitive activity of natural 
contractile expulsion, hence such cathartics generally in form 
of pills increase constipation, by reducing general peristaltic 
power of riiotion. 

This Liability to Unequal Action Applies to all Specifics that by ex- 
citation act upon the nerves especially to tonics which make 
them uncertain, illusive and distrustful when general contractile 
action is not secured by them from exhausting opposing condi- 



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tions. They are in general irritating poisons in large doses, 
but they are graduated in medicinal use to the general 
repellant power of nature to so resist t/ie?n as not to produce 
severe poisonous effects, but the repellent forces of nature vary 
so much in disease, that a lamentable advantage is often in 
favor of their poisonous effects when the resisting instincts 
of vital preservative organic power are so feeble as to cause 
them to surrender to the poisonous death dealing power 
specifics possess, which make them so often unavailing, unre- 
liable and dangerous, to demonstrate the evils of specific medi- 
cation to which the medical profession are wedded. 

The Rate Of all Vital Forces is proportionate to the perfection 
of the attenuative changes of nutrient matter, and the free 
exit of morbid products and are correlative and fixed by 
natural organic conditions, consequently whatever remedy 
interferes with the normal rate of one organic activity 
disturbs the equilibrum of all other natural forces the same 
as disease. Narcotics and nervines not only tamper with the 
blood the nervous fluid and through both with the general pro- 
cess of life, but they stealthily creep up to the throne of life, the 
brain, and put an illegal injunction upon its governing powers, 
they are seditious enemies and are treasonable in their attempts 
to usurp the government of the forces of life. The hypodermic 
use of narcotic poisons makes possible a bold assault of these 
reckless enemies of life as they engage in a hand to hand en- 
counter in strong holds within the walls of the ramparts of life 
the heart and brain. The direct introduction of either foreign 
or poisonous agents into the blood is a reckless compounding 
of a felony against the rights of industrious life. This modern 
infatuation is, however, likely to continue because it is a quick 
way of silencing the cry of injured nerves through pain, but its 
secondary results will be continuedly apparent in the shattered 
nervous wrecks, heart and brain failures, as they often produce 
suicidal insanity and sudden deaths. These heart and brain 



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failures are in reality blood failures because they cause the blood 
to be inadequate in power to support the circulation and the ner- 
vous system the twin brothers of life. When physicians learn 
to remove the causes that produce pain as quickly as they now 
remove the pain, they may discontinue a practice that is fraught 
with great mischief and then only will they become convinced 
that the blood is not a random stream without inherent power 
and organic intelligence to fulfill its mission if it is only supplied 
with its natural elements and forces through its natural source, 
organic nutrition. There is no possible chance for the use of 
science in an art unless it is some imitative representation of 
nature, hence the art of medicine will never become a science 
until it furnishes a ground work of practice which is a helpful 
imitation of nature to increase the powers of aggregation and 
segregation. They are the attractive and repellent forces of 
life, the one getting rid of the cause of disease and the other 
maintaining the nourishment of the tissues as it gives force to 
the circulation. 

Natural Medicine Must Therefore be Both Alterative and Restorative 
in order to fulfill the demand of disease for expulsatory as well 
as recuperative action, which have both become dormant in the 
system. The blood becomes foul and vitiated from all the im- 
purities that are retained as morbific agents in every part of the 
system. It is also dependent upon the forces, of aggregation, 
segregation and vitality, but all blood medicines have little ser- 
vice if the intestinal tract is in a sluggish condition of activity 
because there is a continual cause in the vapors of decomposing 
internal filth that permeate every fluid and tissue which neces- 
sarily saturate the blood with its foul emanations, to take the 
place of its life giving qualities. 

As Every Atom of Organic Matter is necessarily possessed of 
force which has some relation to life, it is evident that the quality 
of health which is only another term for physical and mental vigor 
is dependent upon a supply of those elements of forces through 



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either nutrition or medicine which are sufficient to maintain a 
given standard, but it is also evident that the general increase 
in the variety of those elements affords the opportunity of raising 
the standards of vigor to a satisfactory degree. 

The world is overflowing in the sources of life, but the human 
being has been limited in his opportunities to make them avail- 
able for progressive elevation. The vegetable goes down into 
the soil and gathers what elements are found in its fluids and 
reaches up into the air for subtle properties; they are stored 
away in animal food, and represent only limited supplies from 
the storehouse of nature. The elevation of physical and men- 
tal conditions to the grandest pinnacle of human development 
depends upon the sources of life which science must bring 
forth from nature in the elaboration of its forces which are com- 
paratively latent in matter. Electricity remained for ages wait- 
ing for science to display its powers and utilize their adaptation. 
The progress of life has been slow through the natural changes 
of nature, waiting for the wand of the chemist and philosopher 
to enlarge the measure of its activities in more perfected ad- 
vancement of the human race. Franklin was at first considered 
a daring sacrilegious adventurer when he sent his kite into the 
clouds for electricity ; now scientists are encouraged to reach 
for it in every direction and to manipulate its forces to every pos- 
sible advantage. Life is still shrouded in the mysterious clouds 
of ignorance, and it is considered as such a sacred phenom- 
ena, that the attempt to solve its relation to nature is regarded 
as visionary and impious, so that the processes of cellular activity 
are comparatively disregarded as though they were dominated by 
an unfathomable energy superimposed upon the operations of 
life. Such physicians forget that there are no organic forces 
and no physical energies that are not in nature causatively 
developed and sustained by the changes in the aggregative and 
segregative operations of cellular action wholly dependent upon 
the elements that are necessary to life. It is the province of 



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science to rescue the human race from degeneration and supp.y 
the sources of vitality necessary to lift it into those superior 
conditions which are imperious to the stages of progress and 
development. For generations poisons to the body in the form 
of unnatural agents as medicine have all dominated its deter- 
iorating conditions of activity, infected mental processes and 
superimposed the uncertain fictions of imagination to debase 
the natural order of reason in the human mind and prevent 
the superior intuitive development of the mental and moral 
faculties that have been divorced to place all aspirations under 
the dogmatic sway of superstition. 

Improved Nutrition and Improved Medicine rest upon the same 
basis, to afford the greatest aid to nature, with the least ex- 
pense of energy in its appropriation, hence medicines that are 
always powerful for good and that never produce unpleasant 
sensations or effects but improve in every direction and at all 
times, must contain the elements natural to the blood and neces- 
sarily are complex but natural preparations that simulate the 
blood in composition and hold the forces that are in harmony 
with the forces of the system that elevates the activities of 
health. The change to the use of such medicine involves a re- 
formation more important to the welfare of mankind than any 
movement that has been made for centuries, because they insure 
a great change in the condition of mankind ; they prevent dis- 
ease and create the opportunities for improving the physical 
condition of the race. The}- prevent suffering and thus do away 
with the restless incentives to seek stimulants which so inflame 
the passions so that crime is the consequence. 

Death Always Lurks in Poisons, and their presence in the 
household casts a shadow over the brightest and most cheerful 
faces around the family fireside. But medicines that aid nature 
are like cheerful friends and guardian angels, they induce the 
gladdening sunshine of joy from the radiant glow of health; they 



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produce and bring gratitude that beams in the sparkling eyes of 
those who have been freed from the slavery of disease and 
of poisons by their use, who always desire to extend their 
utility. They banish largely the misery that is the result of 
phyical suffering, and bring expectant joy in the hope 
of health. There is no visible evidence of suffering or moral 
turpitude in the natural world. Order, harmony and utility 
characterize the elements in the display of the forces of vegeta- 
tion and animated existence. 

The joyful satisfaction of health exhibits the cheerful at- 
tractions and play of all atoms in their upward tendencies from 
the inorganic to the organic, physical and mental developments 
of evolution. 

The generation of extensive and complex forces of activity 
in man make his organism delicate and sensitive and therefore 
subject him to constant strains from the violation of both physi- 
cal and mental laws. 

These laws increase in a multiplied variety as the race ad- 
vances from animality to high intellectual conditions of progress, 
consequently increased knowledge imposes increased responsi- 
bility to the advanced laws of activity that intellectuality estab- 
lishes in the physical constitution. The more complicated and 
extensive the changes of atoms the more liable to a perturbed 
distress if the laws of their harmonious activity are violated 
which induces an increased morbid activity of body and mind 
as the natural consequence, hence the sensitive and emotional 
nature affected by climate and barometrical conditions 
is susceptible to irresponsibility, accident and crime as 
an epidemic phenomena of nervousness. It is only through 
the highest grades of satisfaction resulting from a perfect 
physical existence (but which is seldom attained) that we 
may expect the conscious realization of the great value of 
human life. Riches, honor and the fruitions of aspiration and 
bring only the shadows of blessings to the sickly, weak, 



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diseased or wrecked condition. They bring an increased de- 
gree of happiness in proportion to the perfection of physical 
and mental vigor that may be obtained by natural curatives. 

Often the fervid desires or expectations of happiness are 
turned into dispiriting sorrow, only because men and women 
have failed to learn that the success of pleasure, as perfect en- 
joyment, depended upon a healthy condition of the body, as a 
necessity to an untrammeled flow of the mental powers and the 
social and moral emotions. When science gives us food and medi- 
cine thai is jit for the Gods, then may we expect godlike men and 
women. When science has excluded all forms of food which re- 
quire the expenditure of a maximum of vital energy to secure a 
minimum of vitalizing nutriment ive will realize the value of vi- 
talizing nutrition. When it has excluded all forms of injurious 
medicine we shall joyfully realize that nature only demands totali- 
zation for overcoming disease. 

The position I have taken from long critical observation as 
well as negative demonstration, that the first causes of general 
disease are due to constipation and its effects upon nutritive 
perfection and the absorptive processes of assimilation, is more 
than a rational theory, because it accounts for all the facts of 
disease. 

Observation has invariably revealed that certain portions of 
the bowels are obstructed, their circulation and contractions 
ceasing as resonance disappears, in both acute and chronic af- 
fections as a proof of such ominous causes. 

Demonstrations have seldom failed in overcoming diseases 
by establishing an elastic, contractile activity, to these portions 
of the bowels thus maintaining their power, by which constipa- 
tion is not only overcome but its tendencies are prevented, and 
the causes of disease. 

This rational aetiology is the ground work of the only satis- 
factory explanation of the symptoms or progress of disease, 
which will stand the test of scientific investigation, or of rational, 



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successful, curative methods. It establishes the fact that the 
nutritive apparatus is such a perfect chemical arrangement of 
nature, that no failure in physiological operations are possible, 
if the proper elements are furnished, and the necessary condi- 
tions are maintained. 

Dyspepsia never occurs if every portion of the intestinal 
tract is unobstructed to keep up continuous elastic contractions, 
fluid progress downward, a resonance of every portion of the 
bowels on palpation, and regular softened discharges with the 
necessary exit of intestinal gases. 

In medicine the measures for this result, have been inade- 
quate for want of a strengthening aperient, to institute a contin- 
uous restorative power to the nervous system, as it secures the 
irrigating drainage necessary to remove obstructions. 

There is no greater prophylactic measure neglected than 
that of keeping the temperature of the bowels in a normal state, 
for there is no part of the body that needs as much protection 
from cold to secure evacuation and absorption. 

An unconscious chilled condition of the abdomen checks cir- 
culation and results in a contractile shrinking of the intestines 
upon their contents to produce constipation and overcome activity 
thus producing a barrier to all the chyliferous intestinal pro- 
cesses of active nutrition, and absorption continuing also, the re- 
duction of the necessary temperature of these operations. 

Constipation and colds very often result to cause severe pro- 
gressive diseases and complications attributed to them through 
congestion and inflammation. For the want of all the attenu- 
ated intestinal changes of nutriment, the ptomaines or poisons 
of morbid, decomposed nutriment get the mastery over these 
delicate operations of health, causing disease. 

In pneumonia by deep kneading you will always find some 
portion of the bowels hard and tender, this is a local constipa- 
tion reversing the natural course of fluids ami gases ; turning 



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them upward and backward, to force them through the tissues 
to the cavities that surround the lungs ; to produce congestion. 
You may secure a channel through this faecal, hard accumu- 
lation by ordinary cathartics, but the benumbed muscles of the 
channel again dilates, the bowels fill up and the inactive, consti- 
pated condition of this portion of the intestine becomes a con- 
tinued and persistent cause of progressive inflammation. When 
you have ordinary colds the constipation is in a lower portion of 
the bowels and is not so obstinate in its character ; but colds 
will continue until a thorough activity is finally established in 
the whole intestinal tract ; and the local constipation entirely 
overcome as a necessity to insure active, uniform circulation, 
and an expulsion of congestive gases which are the prime factors 
of disease. 

In Asthma we have an obstinate condition of constipation in 
the lower part of the jejunum, preventing the digested fluid, nu- 
triment, an ingress to the absorptive portions of the small intes- 
tines. This presents a negative condition to the formative 
operations of life that results in a weakness of the respiratory 
nerves and muscles till they become too impoverished in power to 
resist the decomposing, irritant pressure of gases that are formed 
above the constipated portion as well as the accumulating pres- 
sure of noxious protruding fluids. 

This pressure through the cavities and tissues of gases as 
well as perverted fluids, increase and produce engorgement, spas- 
modic action and restricted respiration. 

Inflammatory Rheumatism is due to such obstinate constipa- 
tions often in the upper part of the intestinal tract, by which 
fluid nutriment is also retained and decomposed, causing those 
severe irritating gases, whose pressure gives suffering to the 
nerves in the tissues, as they being more active quickly pervade 
the system and accumulate in great force. 

Every species of constipation (for they are many and various) 
in thirty feet of the intestines, has a tendency to grow more and 



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more obstinate by the reduction of power in the nerves of the 
muscles from the dilating pressure that prevents circulation in 
the tissues, and thus reduces their size and strength as consti- 
pation continues. 

Consumption, generally supposed to be a primary affection of 
the lungs, originates largely from faecal decomposition, the 
ptions of which institute other destructive processes in 
products of decomposing nutriment, producing destructive 
gases, which become constant sources of irritation to the lungs, 
while the retained, decomposing fluids afford a susceptible source 
and culture for the bacillus that hastens the destructive progress 
of the delicate tissues of the lungs, whose only office is the ex- 
change of the impure gases of the blood for more vitalized 
changes from the air as a method of gaseous purification ; 
which is rendered impossible by severe local constipations. 

The Lungs are the sensitive ventilators of the atmosphere 

within the body, they appropriate the nutritive gases within and 

without for the high grade of suste?iance that gives them power. 

When they are deprived of such high grades of sustenance, 

they necessarily fail to receive their active forces from the blood; 

the blood charges its poverty upon the administrative chylifer- 

OUS functions, but they in turn lay the cause of their failure to 

condition of the bowels, and insist that they have been 

i protected to insure their natural temperature nor have 

eth done their duty ; that too much solid food, and 

too little fluid has been given the stomach, and though the 

Stomal h had done the best it could, it had nevertheless turned 

ret to them in such an unsolvable condition that 

i ould not under their disabilities possibly do their work of 

fluid absorption, hence, they were helpless in the struggle to 

1 blood. 

heart and brain making the same complaints to the 

to the Bame rational defenses, and finally close 

theil the blood was bankrupt in forces and loaded 



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down with burdens which caused their failure; they also protest 
against their culpability because their service alone depended 
upon the deposits of active blood constituents, that gave them 
all their working capital and power, but now that these sustain- 
ing forces were withheld, and continuous burdens were substi- 
tuted by the blood, it was only a matter of closing the bank of 
life that had failed for want of vitalizing funds. In all this neg- 
ative retrograded condition of life, the nervous system becomes 
the mediating sufferer, between outraged physiological law and 
its penalties of death ; but it helplessly yields to the tortures of 
life's impending doom only, after struggles again and again, as 
it eagerly grasps for every active element of life in the blood for 
renewing sustenance. 

Catarrh is a disease that attacks any weak constitution that 
is destitute of that vigor of vital resistance, and those active, 
physiological conditions which insure perfect circulation and 
power in the blood. 

A succession of colds decreases the lowered conditions of 
activity first, in the intestinal tract, next, in the assimilative func- 
tions, reducing thus extreme circulation as a consequence, when 
the general obstructions of degraded blood plasma accumulate, 
which united with morbid fluid impurities then appear on the 
mucous surfaces for elimination. 

The continuance of this exuding action upon the mucous 
follicles changes their offices as secreting organs of pure mucus 
to exuding outlets of muco-purulent products, which finally 
destroy the follicle and then establish open streams of morbid 
matter, forming morbid, exuding habits which increase with 
every subsequent cold, till disease continues on to its gravest 
results. 

Local Treatment with the ordinary alteratives may have a 
seeming curative effect, but soon a severe cold is taken and the 
disease returns in full force. For a thorough cure the blood 
must positively receive a restored vitalizing power of resistance 



U - 

to causes of colds, that will thus throw them off, which can only 
be secured by a natural vitalizing agent, that, thoroughly establishes 
t physiological action and power to renew perfect follicles 
and their functional activity. 

The same necessity is apparent in the treatment of all dis- 
eases of the respiratory organs and especially of the lungs, or a 
cure of consumption will continue a failure for the want of the 
desideratum, to be only secured by a powerful, natural, re- 
medicine that insures general activity. Skin diseases as 
;is mucous diseases are treated by alteratives and local ap- 
plications, the alterative thins the blood and scours the tissues, 
the applications soothe the irritated nerves and protect the 
tissues, but vitalized blood w r ith all its essential reconstructive 
elements must be secured or the disease will return again and 
i. to go through the same or similar methods of treatment 
without a final cure. 

Abscesses and Ulcers may be cleansed and all tissue, dis- 
charges and destructions maybe temporarily retarded, but they 
all require restorative elemental tissue-change, through perfected 
blood, which becomes dependent upon establisJiing perfect diges- 
tion and the absorption of a perfect assimilating nutriment, that 
s to all functions, power. 

Dropsy is a Disease From Constipation, and its consequence 

which is imperfect nutrition, that always deprives the blood of 

r to maintain the aggregations and segregations properly, 

part of the human system. Hence, nutritive power gives 

not only proper fluid-action, but proper tissue-change upon 

h all tissues depend. 

The Blood is the Royal Stream of Life, the more pure and per- 
itritive bran< lies become, the higher is the grade of 
! unobstructed drainage is secured to all work- 
shop hannels. Without thorough, natural, alterative 
drain innot become rapid, a condition neces- 

of vitality, hence the necessity of in- 



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corporating into medicine for the blood's service, nature's vital 
principal of solvency, to secure perfected solvent processes of 
nutrition for every fluid and tissue as they are thus constantly 
cleansed for the appropriation of reconstructive elements in 
either food or medicine. Restorative medicines are generally 
without the solvent power, and hence they become unavailing in 
the necessities of disease. 

Tonics That Excite Nerves to produce contractile vibration in 
aggregative and segregative processes being severe poisons in 
large doses are only available so long as nervous power con- 
tinues, this power they constantly use up, and therefore lessen, 
until they fail to arouse it to produce contractile activity, other 
forms of tonics which excite different susceptibilities of nerve 
power, may be resorted to, each in their turn, till every nervous 
element is exhausted, and nervous exhaustion becomes the final 
result when tonics become useless. 

A Diathesis is a predisposition by which physiological 
action is determined and the qualitative condition of the blood 
that flows from generation to generation, subject to the changes 
of parental combination and the influence of hygiene and 
medicine. 

The grades of vitality rise above or sink below the level of 
inherited conditions, and thus surmounts evil tendencies, or 
hastens the development of disease, according to the service 
nature requires. 

Medicine, food and physical, asw r ell as physiological habits, 
largely affect inherited vitality, consequently a knowledge of ap- 
propriate assistance in the form of chemical elements and phy- 
siological measures become important in raising the standard of 
activity necessary to secure health and longevity. 

Unnatural Alteratives change scrofulous conditions to scor- 
butic tissue destruction, tonics exhaust nervous power, nar- 
cotics destroy it, while unnatural cathartics institute a warfare 
that summons all its resisting resources. The continued effects 



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of all forms of unnatural medicine are propagated from parents 
to children in great varieties, to perpetuate the maladies of poi- 
sonous medication. 

Localized Constipation producing pressure, dilation and en- 
larged masses, fluid and gaseous reservoirs, in the intestines, not 
only checks circulation in them, but also in the contiguous parts, 
that result in surcharging other more active tissues to produce 
in them engorgement, congestion and inflammation. 

The free flow of bile and intestinal secretions are also pre- 
vented, causing dyspepsia, biliousness and the production of 
malarial conditions to interfere with the functional activity of 
vital processes and engender fever. The pressure of unequal 
circulation caused by local constipation also obstructs and affects 
the kidneys ; it also deranges the pelvic circulation, producing 
side by side a paralyzed and inflamed condition of nerves, that 
end in piles, painful emicturation, diseased mucuous discharges, 
prolapsus enlargements and ulcerations. 

The Pressure of Constipated Masses confined in the walls of 
the pelvic cavity in females, by preventing circulation, robs the 
Buspensary muscles and ligaments of their normal strength, 
resulting in an increased prolapsed pressure upon the nerves of 
the lower pelvic region, that produces the severe progressive 
diseases that end in the unavailing treatment of pessaries, 
cauterization and injections. 

The congestive effects of obstructed pelvic circulation, also 
produce fistulas and ulcerations, especially under the use of 
stimulants, that irritate congestive action to increase irritative 
inflammation, purulent disc harms, hemorrhages and protrusion. 
D be no perfection of fluids or tissues without per- 
f< < tion in the Mood ; this alone insures their qualitative activity 

in maintaining health and Curing disease. 

Bright's Disease which is only cured by establishing intestinal 
<>f perfei t nutritive absorption, whereby perfect fluids 



are secured and perfect blood changes are affected in the tissues, 
can not be cured by specifics that affect kidney action only. 

All Kidney Diseases Yield to the intestinal drainage of disease 
producing fluids, if continued until it relieves the kidneys of 
those noxious fluids imposed upon them by constipation, it 
further allows the functions of nutrition to be again renewed by 
aiding the processes that supply the essential chemical elements 
of physical forces. 

Restoratives must be solvent representatives of the elements 
of nutrition, so compounded to hold the known forces that are 
the result of those chemical changes which aid nature in life. 
The eyes from their irritative motion of winking and constant 
impure fluid secretions, are little benefited by local treatment ; 
still less the ears from an opposite condition of exposure, by 
which their delicate tissues cannot be reached. Hence, both 
require high grades of alUrating sustenance from the blood, as 
the only effective means of changing diseased tissues into healthy 
states ; through the solving and restorative processes of recon- 
structive vitality, that removes both the cause and effects of ob- 
structions and inflammations. 

Deafness yields only when the exuding causes are thoroughly 
removed and a vitalized circulation has given proper aggregative 
as well as segregative changes ; that causes the tissues to be re- 
stored to their normal size and power of activity and sensitive- 
ness. 

All the internal organs are restored to their proper con- 
dition with the same means by which their activities are per- 
fected, and their proper functions established, so that enlarge- 
ments disappear and atrophied tissues are enlarged, as their 
morbid circulation is changed, by a vitalized, nutritive, physiol- 
ogical power, cumulative and progressive in the natural direction. 

This alterative and nutritive power in the blood, is increased 
by such a combination of the salts, hydro-carbon and proteid 
elements, as hold the organic gases in that susceptible form of 



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nascent evolvement which adds to, and maintains the natural 
forces of healthy action based upon physiological, pathology and 
chemical considerations. It must be remembered that consti- 
i robs the blood of these elements, as well as the power 
through nutrition. Hence, waste products and their 
decompostions accumulate in all fluids and tissues as morbid 
s of disease. 
Under all weakened conditions of nervous power, the stim- 
ulation of the various functions through the nerves maintaining 
. often prove a tantalizing delusion, and the fitful glare of 
hope fades away into discomfiture and failure, as the "horizon 
of life," grows darker and darker under the ignis-fatuus light of 
;tic medication to which all medical system are wedded. 
The Restorative Antiseptic Drainage of the Intestinal Tract. 
which physiological knowledge and common sense so earnestly 
nid as rationally curative, has never received the attention 
of the medical savants, conventions or colleges, notwithstand- 
c beacon light shining through success in the "irrigation 
method, " of a new treatment for cholera at the hospital of 
Russia. 

This indicates a stolidity both in the perceptions and con- 

< eptions of all medical professions toward those enlightened 

methods, which are practical in the prevention and cure of 

LSC. The idolatrous worship of poisons in minimum or 

:iium doses pn vents any attention in this direction, but 

new form of poison, or some product of disease will be ex- 

illy given by the stomach, or introduced directly into 

lood hypodermically with hypothetical chances of attaining 

cine. The inexorable logic of nature's teach- 

ir< o mmanding authority over all these delusions 

of th' periment before medicine can become a science 

01 bring (O mankind t 5 which the age demands. 

must become enlightened upon the great problem 

<>f lift that unfolds the organic complexities 



— 2i» — 

of chemical change in the most perfected grades of life ; that 
maintain a victorious triumph over the minute skeletons of des- 
tructive bacterial organisms, that are only rendered possible in 
retrograded decomposition that produce internal animal filth. 

The Mysteries Of Disease will disappear as the complicated 
processes of life become more fully known and its laws and ne- 
cessities are established upon a solid foundation. Nature's laws 
are inexorable and supreme, and must become recognized au- 
thoritatively, as the only true basis of a progress in medicine. 

All applications for warrants against disease before the 
royal courts of Nature will be filed, Life vs. Death, and no tes- 
timony, but facts and certain knowledge will avail in the future 
science of medicine which will never be firmly established upon 
an enduring basis until the fictions of unnatural medicine are 
dissipated and the monumental authorities of poisonous medica- 
tion are overthrown. 

There is no Argument so Convincing as a presentation of princi- 
ples and facts which are corroborated by nature and experience. 
The argument of science rests upon the laws that govern the 
forces of nature. To understand these laws requires a knowledge 
not only of the forces of matter, but also of their foundation and 
source. The knowledge of electricity and of the explosive forces 
of compounds of matter in solid, fluid or gaseous states, and of 
forces under conditions of expansion, condensation and combin- 
nation, is a comparatively modern acquisition. Science has 
taught us that these forces are locked up in inert matter and 
are evolved by chemical changes which liberate these latent 
agents of nature. It also teaches that all conditions of life from 
the lowest to the highest forms are dependent upon the muta- 
tions of matter. In the rational presentation of any scientific 
subject, conjecture and hypothesis must be laid aside for analyt- 
ical methods so that all results shall become definite and certain. 
Such investigations when applied to medicine cannot fail to cast 
a halo of authoritative light upon a noble profession which has 



;;0 — 

suffered from the incubus of superstitions, that have been propa- 
from age to age, and that have discouraged efforts to found 

ractice upon the principles of nature and science. Physi- 
and chemistry afford the proper basis of arriving at the 
definite operations of organisms essential to secure a knowledge 
of the conditions of health. It is therefore plain to the judgment 
of the intelligent investigator and philosopher that medical 
e implies a thorough knowledge of the vital functions and 
of the active operations of the organs of the human system as well 
as the combinations of organic elements which produce those 

>S that maintain health. Important as it is to know gener- 
ally how to prevent disease from external sources the conserva- 
tion of healthy conditions is of even more value. This demands 
a thorough mastication of proper food as the necessary requisite 
of perfect digestion; also a regular evacuation of waste products 
and an active circulation of the blood, to secure all the changes 
required in the general processes of life. Physical development, 
vigor, energy, bodily strength and mental activity depend upon 
a nutritive supply of all the chemical and organic elements of 
the body in food or medicine. 

Perfect food, perfect medicine and perfect physiological 
habits only secure the highest physical development of the human 



IMPORTANCE OF CHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE. 

In the selection of nutritous food that will fully afford the 
nece tnenta which are demanded lor the perfection of all 

I tissues, a knowledge of the chemistry of organic pro- 
cesses and of food products is important. Practical experience 
I value of organic chemistry when it secures 
BUCh t food &S will furnish the blood with nourish- 

tablish a condition of permanent vigor 
and health. waste of functional energy 



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consequent upon the necessary expulsion from the bowels of 
the useless products of both innutritious and unmasticated or 
undigested food. For they not only greatly burden the system 
by their useless presence but they fail, for want of proper diges- 
tive decomposition to supply the active demands of life with the 
chemical elements of nutrition. Surplus food likewise becomes 
a positive burden in the results of the wasting decomposition 
that it undergoes which is always deleterious. 



EVIL EFFECTS OF INDUCED CONSTIPATION. 

It is exceptional when any generally diseased individual is 
entirely free from the evil effects of intestinal inactivity, both 
muscular and glandular. Even when forced passages occur 
they fail to carry away those decomposing accumulations in the 
convolutions and folds of the bowels. Such accumulations 
ordinary cathartics do not always thoroughly remove. The 
habitual congested conditions of the bowels caused in early 
youth, by neglecting the calls of nature, reduces the natural 
nervous, contractile activity of the intestinal muscles. This, in 
turn, manifests itself not only in the diseases of childhood, but 
it prepares the way for diseases of maturity that result from in- 
duced habits of constipation, habits that are evil and only evil 
in their consequences upon health. 

Solid food which passes through the bowels in an undissolved 
and undigested condition therefore is not only a waste of nutri- 
ment that uselessly occupies absorptive surfaces but it induces 
constipation and local impactions that confine within the body in 
all conditions of activity fluid faecal products subjected to the tem- 
perature of the body, which frequently undergo further decom- 
positions of such fermentative and putrescent character as cause 
disease by the destructive poisons generated. 

These fluids become the source of ptomaines, mkrobes and 
bacteria. They produce intestinal gases which penetrate all 



— 82 

channels, cavities and tissues, inflame, irritate and even paralyze 
the nerves, and interfere with the healthy conditions of every func- 
tion of health. These dangerous gases unceremoniously invade 
rtal of Life, like an internal wave of pestilence and an- 
tagonize every vital operation of the human system. Conse- 
;iv an antiseptical evacuation of these intestinal accumula- 
tions in all stages of disease, is the most important feature of 
rational medical practice. After the nutritive properties of food 
become absorbed, its presence in the system is not only 
it burdensome and injurious. 
Consequently the waste products should be regularly evac- 
uated so that they will not hinder the active formative life pro- 
cesses, or the operation of the evacuent forces of life. 

To Secure That Most Important Necessity of Health, a regular 
activity of the muscles of the intestinal tract, nature must be 
I by a natural solvent evacuant that removes gently all ob- 
structions and gives vital forces through the blood to every 
of the body. Nothing else can so thoroughly overcome 
the fii es of nearly all those classified diseases that prey 

upon the human system which are either directly due to clog- 
the main sewer of the body or indirectly to the effects of 
such Every fluid is more or less depraved by consti- 

depravity which disturbs all functional processes, pre- 
sue-change and checks the active elimina- 
products not only from the bowels and kidneys but 
the skin and from the lungs by their hindrance to blood 
through the process of respiration. The fatalties that 
m the ordinary methods of treating impactions of the 
racter arc of such serious consequence as 
consideration of the value of a cathartic 
tion ol its harmless antiseptical permeating 
■ annel through or around impacted faecal 
and allow the same solvent cathartic fluid to follow 



THE FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS OF POPULAR MEDICINE. 

The reason of the significant failure of general medical 
practice is obvious, since it does not regard the complex demands 
of life in medicine. This infidelity to the laws of nature, en- 
courages the popular heresy of specific medication which will 
continue to maintain its irrational sway in therapeutics as long 
as all authorities of medical practice combine to prevent and 
discourage the analytical study of the necessary elements and 
vitalizing forces of health, and the synthetical adaptation of 
medicine which contains only the principles of life. It is because 
independent rational processes of scientific investigation are not 
licensed by medical authority, and are consequently discarded, 
that there exists such a profound ignorance of the inherent 
forces of popular medicines. 

Quinine Regarded as an Antidotal Specific for an unknown dis. 
called malaria, is the king of febrile specifics, only because it is 
the king of tonics. Its value is due to the power it possesses 
over nerves to produce powerful action and contractility through 
them, that secures extreme circulation contractile expulsion 
of biliary and other intestinal morbid secretions which often 
become cultures of spores, microbes and bacteria as well as of 
other disease-producing disorganizations. These tonics, how- 
ever, by exciting nervous action cause such a cumulative con- 
tractile strain upon the nerves as to exhaust nervous force and 
unpleasant effects necessarily follow their use. The digestion 
becomes deranged and the over-action induces a final partial 
paralysis and deafness from a nervous exhaustion. 

All Tonic Action is due to the excitation of this contractile 
nervous force which expels morbific elements, giving nature 
greater freedom for recuperation. Powerful tonics like quinine 
and strychnine in large doses, produce contractile cathartic 
effects, but all unnaturally forced action exhausts the nervous 



— ?>4 

system, reduces its natural activity and ends in nervous debility; 
this also is the case with all unnatural medicine which by exci- 
tation increases activity without furnishing a supply to the sources 
of vital power. This explains the uncertainties of specifics, for 
the nervous power is not maintained by them, hence, they lose 
effects by exhaustions which they produce. Tonics may 
at first increase depuration and tissue-changes, but they also 
exhaust the blood of its vital nerve elements which they fail to 
supply, and hence lose their power upon nerves by continued use. 

This is also the Case with Applied Electricity which produces 
the same contractile exercise by its influence upon the nerves 
but supplies no permanent organic elements for nerves which is 
essential to the blood to maintain the action produced and pre- 
xhaustion. There are many specifics in general use for 
fever, inflammation, pain and increased temperature that contain 
latent compound gases which unite atomically and antisepticaily 
in the circulation with the compound noxious gases of disease. 

The Antipyretics and Analgesics from coal tar and phenyl sources 
produce antiseptic changes in the blood but often the blood 
becomes so burdensomly surcharged with resultant deleterious 
< .'inpound hydro-carbon products that a sudden and unaccount- 
able death is the result when used largely for pain, inflammation 

Heart Failure gets the blame although the physician knows 
full well that these medicines are all destitute of any solvent 
eliminating or vitalizing power. 

A Natural Ozonic Antiseptic Evacuent is not only far more effec- 

i producing the proper changes but also rapidly removes 

all morbid products, and is valuable for its safety instead of 

because of its vitalizing and restorative elements. 

ble that medical savants should so neglect the 

id physiological science for the inscrutable 

.1 experiment and thus attempt the discov- 

iot only from newly discovered poisons 



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but from the animal poisons of disease, the bacilli of their pro- 
ducts, and the ptomaines of diseased processes. It is strange 
that the medical profession should become so enthusiastic over 
faint gleams of hope in a mythical field of observation, while 
they disregard the rational possibilities of natural antiseptics 
which secure also to the blood those desirable changes which 
purify it and supply it with forces and elements that insure per- 
fect tissues and thus secure a cure of all forms of disease and a 
vigorous condition of health. 

The Superiority of Restorative Purification over all forms of spe- 
cific inoculation, in overcoming tendencies to contagion or 
disease, will never be universally demonstrated so long as physi- 
cians do not make investigations into the fundamental principles 
of substances that embrace not only the elements but the forces 
of nature in their proper relation to all forms of life, and so fail 
to consider natural methods of treating disease. 

It is Significant that there is not a single subject or fact that 
has the entire unity of the medical profession. This realm of 
uncertainty suggests that the whole range of theoretical thera- 
peutics is neither based upon the simple facts of nature or 
science which are always as lucid as they are certain and relia- 
ble. Natural restorative medication being based upon the de- 
mands of nature in organism is divested of all the incongruities 
of medical literature that are piled like Ossa upon Pelion to 
reach mythical authority and crush out reason and common 
sense which is as simple in science as it is in practice. 



THE TRUE SOURCE OF CURATIVE POWER. 

Animal Electricity, a natural contractile force is constantly 
produced in the human system by the electrolytic processes of 
aggregation and segregation between the acids and metallic 
bases of the salts of the blood, which produces also organic 
gaseous changes and their resultant active forces. 



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Food or Natural Medicine must necessarily be reduced to a 
fluid condition before it can be carried by the blood to the tis- 
sues. Consequently perfect nutrition, whether of food or medi- 
cine, in its most assimilable form, must represent that soluble 
condition of organic matter which contains the vital elements of 
the system and forces held by the metals that are represented 
bv alkaline combination with oxygen. 

The Various Metals of the Blood are acted upon by the acids of 
the system and develop that compound force of life as animal 
electricity, or the motive power of all tissue change. This or- 
ganic power accumulates in healthy action and is a refined im- 
ponderable agent that especially flows through the nervous sys- 
tem to perpetuate action in every direction in the whole organ- 
ism, with all its qualitative powers. This compound impon- 
derable and unfathomed magnetic fluid, the epitome of all 
the organic and intelligent forces of nature, merged into the 
sublime phenomena of human life, is a constant production 
of the perfectly organized individual, and may by the at- 
tractions of condition as positive will, become a hypnotic or 
mental curative power to others in whom negative states exist, 
as in disease. For it is this concentrated organic utilized motive 
power of life and activity that is the essential necessity of health in 
human being, and is consequently, when thus delegated, 
e of forces from the brain and nerves that kindles anew the 
fires of life. 

A Solvent that Aids Nutrition and provides the acid and alka- 

ements of nutrition to the blood in a proper form neces- 

Barily furnishes electrical vitality and increases vital and mental 

Its mission is therefore majestically grand as a provident 

lias power over the nursery of life. This solvent power 

all morbid obstructions does away with the supposed neces- 

t the unnatural i onti act He actions of tonics, it supplies the 

t natural nervous contractile power which becomes 

cumulative and produces all the desired changes from disease to 



health. It supports not only the eliminative forces but the ag- 
gregative processes that are necessary to the full enjoyment of 
physical and mental power. Consequently it never fails to ac- 
complish not only a thorough renovation of the blood but an in- 
crease of all the elements of organic force and the elements of 
mentality. 



CURATIVE MEDICINE MUST BE NATURAL. 

Reliable forces that are always available must be natural to 
the operations of life. When such forces are so combined in a 
medicine, that it is a chemical representative of the constituents 
of the blood, it becomes not only safe and pleasant but far more 
effective than dangerous compounds that may cure or kill. It 
is entirely unnecessary that natural curative forces should be 
combined with dangerous elements. 

Chlorine a compound oxy-hydrogen gas is a natural solvent, 
and alterative evacuant, but, when combined with mercury in 
calomel, more chlorine may be abstracted from the chlorine 
salts of the blood, when calomel is changed to corrosive subli- 
mate, which produces salivation, ulceration and even sudden 
death. Mercury is also liable to undergo these very destructive 
changes, when taken in any form on account of its great affinity 
for chlorine, which always exists in the blood, in the digestive 
juices, and in the salt used in foods. Conscious of its terrible 
effects upon the human constitution, from the observable results 
that often follow salivation, suspicious caution detects its pres- 
ence in many of the secret proprietary nostrums that are still 
sapping by destructive alteration the life of the present genera- 
tion, as well as in the prescriptions of most noted physicians 
who disguise it under the appellation of the mild chloride, which 
is mild only in the impression the language conveys, for it con- 
tinues, with other destructive remedies, to find innumerable 
victims even in the front ranks of intelligence and talent. 



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Wrecks in mind and body, they are excused from usefulness and 
society, as lunatics, or from the sphere of earthly existence by 
the medical certificate given of heart disease, softening of the 
brain, inanition or suicide from dementia and the lid of the coffin 
closes upon the fatality of medicines that are unnatural and des- 
tructive to the fluids and tissues as well as to the vital and men- 
tal forces of the human system. 

Thus in all Unnatural Medicines there lurk dangerous elements 
that may combine in the chemical laboratory of life to create 
serious and destructive compounds, or unite with the animal 
poisons of disease to produce sudden disorganization of the 
blood and tissues. 

The Natural Restorative Evacuant necessarily secures the bene- 
ficial and powerful effect of chlorine as a solvent cathartic or 
natural alterative without the evil effects of mercury. This 
natural evacuant builds as it eliminates ; a conservative im- 
provement which should secure recognition because it preserves 
all tissues and the forces of life and is far more effective and 
safe than calomel. 

The Natural Activities Of Life are preservative against the evil 
effects of a large number of unnatural elements used in medicine. 
If it were not for the resistance of the vital forces, death would 
claim for its victims most of the patients that are treated by the 
popular physician. But as the hardiest soldier yields to long 
marches, miasma, exposure and the hardships of war, so when 
disease is crying with uplifted symptoms in its arms for aid, the 
human system burdened with everything except that which nature 
demands, is gradually broken down by poisons and the habits 
of disease take the place of the organic instincts of life. 



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THE EVIL EFFECTS OF MORBID CAUSES ON CIRCULATION. 

All the alkaloid poisons and poisonous gases, that are gen- 
erated in an active form in the intestinal tract which permeate 
the channels and tissues of the body, not only interfere with 
natural healthy circulation by loading the blood with morbid 
elements, but they change its nutritive plasma into devitalizing 
products which form diseased plastic deposits as they also un- 
dergo afterwards decomposing changes that increase the 
active causes of disease. This impure and devitalized part 
of the blood burdens particularly extreme anastomosing cir- 
culation externally as well as internally and the pores of 
the skin become closed to the escape of gaseous and vap- 
orous impurities and there results a tendency in the extrem- 
ities to the reduction of temperature that produces a chill, 
or to colds which so often occur without any external cause. 
The internal membranes then necessarily take on vicarious ac- 
tion where the temperature of the system is maintained, but 
they being finally overburdened by degraded, effete, waste-pro- 
ducts, become congested, when decomposing inflammatory ac- 
tion follows and exudation is the consequence. They are catar- 
rhal in the mucous surfaces but more highly inflammatory in the 
serous membranes that have no outlets, causing pleurisy and 
pneumonia. The delicate lung-tissue becomes so burdened as 
to finally yield to consumption from the congestive condition 
that locates morbid action. 

The Nutritive Elements of the Blood having become depraved 
cannot be used for proper tissue growth, for want of those proper 
reductive chemical electrolytic changes that produces the vital 
forces of life. Consequently the organic gases that result from 
proper tissue change do not exist then in the blood to favor the 
vital changes of respiration, but these devitalized elements con- 
tinue in the blood as the chief source of catarrhal exudations 



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and indurations of tissue and also undergo decomposition in 
pulmonary cells, inducing ulceration and the destruction of the 
lungs and other tissues of the body. A perfect and complete 
condition of all the blood elements and forces necessary to pro- 
duce thorough tissue changes is the fundamental basis of 
healthy action. This is not the case in the unbalanced activities 
of the consumptive diathesis. It must be entirely changed by a 
thorough natural form of restorative medicine which not only 
contains the elements that are exhausted, but also the active 
forces that have been lost in order to renew the harmony of 
action which is necessary in both the aggregative and the segre- 
gative work of tissue change which also preserves and increases 
the quality of durability in the tissues and the adipose matter 
that depends upon such perfection. 

Hydro-Carbons in the Form of Cod-Liver Oil and Stimulants fail to 
reach the condition of exhaustion which this disease often pro- 
duces, because there must first be a thorough exaltation of the 
vital activities of the entire organism, which can only be secured 
by a restorative that contains both natural elements and forces 
that will re-establish the equilibrium and harmony required by 
nature before hydro-carbons or nutriment can be of service. 

In this disease the disorganization of organic fluids and 
structures induces putrefactive cultures of bacteria and opens 
channels of waste that ultimately destroy the whole body though 
the more delicate tissues of the lungs are the first to yield. 

Learned Experimenters may discover agents that will destroy 
the bacilli of consumption, but to cure they must necessarily 
invent those harmless yet active alkaline and acid combinations 
that are so effective in a natural restorative. Such a restorative 
accomplishes the desired results most thoroughly through the 
natural channels of supply from the stomach, because it also 
destroys the source of the bacteria, that also originate in the de- 
graded fluids and secretions of the intestinal tract and pass 
lood to the tissues. The subcutaneous method of 



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introducing agents directly to the blood is disturbing to the cir- 
culation, and can check and protract, but never entirely stay 
the progress of this insidious disease originating as it does in 
disordered organic action, which if not corrected will continue 
until the end is death. Such disordered action of the processes 
of life, increase fluids corrupted by decomposing and degraded 
elements of nutrition, and the morbid accumulations become 
the cause of bacteria especially manifest in those wasting and 
progressive diseases, which resist the so-called specific treat- 
ments of the medical profession ; treatments which universally 
fail to accomplish the cure, because they do not establish the 
organic activities of life. 

A General Increase of Vital Activity is necessary not only to resist 
the inroads of the bacilli tuberculosis of consumption but to 
overcome the depraved condition of the organic fluids in which 
they rapidly increase. This calls for a general restorative which 
has reconstructive vitalizing power over organic processes. Colds 
are often the result of internal noxious gases that induce para- 
lyzed and obstructed conditions of extreme circulation, causing 
a nervous collapse of the perspiratory functions of the skin. 
Then all the fluids, gases and vaporous impurities of the blood 
are obliged to seek internal surfaces, where they congest or ac- 
cumulate to produce febrile or inflammatory action. 

The First Notice in Colds the nerves give of internal gaseous 
pressure and its irritating burdens is a sneeze, which is a heroic 
effort of nature to relieve the congested mucous surfaces, and 
throw back the tide of circulation to the extremities. At the 
same time it exercises a spasmodic effort of contraction upon the 
muscles of the bowels, as an expulsatory force to dislodge the 
faecal matter which has confined the noxious gases pervading 
the circulation that would have passed downward. The in- 
creased pressure of these retained gases that accumulate above 
the constipated portions of the bowels, by its deadening influ- 
ence upon circulation very often is the main cause of the cold- 



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ness of the extremities that results in a chill, and the reaction is 
manifested by a fever or inflammation. 

A Vitalizing Restorative Evacuant overcomes both the first causes 
of fever and inflammation and insures a reorganized nutritive 
purity, and thorough natural circulation to the blood, producing 
such magical effects that its use induces belief in its sure and 
sovereign power over diseases often pronounced mortal by phy- 
sicians. The changes that take place in fluids and in the forma- 
tive nutrient plasma of the blood that becomes devitalized, 
are so varied in chemical decomposition, and especially in 
their degenerative formative character in disease, that a mul- 
tiplicity of forms of deviation from their normal qualities, is the 
result in tissues. Devitalized organic action produces indura- 
tion, enlargements, tumors, epigenic growths, false membranes, 
and degenerated tissues, as well as destruction of tissues, which 
are so often causes of death. There is no successful method of 
changing this faulty plasma to its proper and perfect state, 
except by the use of an alterative natural restorative evac- 
uant, that is powerful enough, not only in elements, but in the 
active forces, to promptly meet, by large doses, such acute dis- 
eases as croup and diphtheria, or other destructive forms of in- 
flammation that have a rapid course. 

The Destructive Gases of Organic Decomposition that pervade 
the air from both animals and vegetables vitiate the atmosphere 
and cause severe forms of disease, often of an epidemic charac- 
ter, attended with microbes and bacteria, they poison and dis- 
organize the blood. Still more should they be recognized as 
the active causes of disease when they are generated from the 
decomposition of animal and vegetable food confined by consti- 
pation within the very citadel of life ; hence the importance of 
securing not only proper mastication and a perfect digestion of 
food, but also a free, natural and regular evacuation of the de- 
composing contents of the bowels, by a thoroughly restorative 
Strengthening solvent, which is also an eliminating cathartic. 



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This measure will insure also a vigorous circulation of the blood 
through the tissues of the bowels, and al.l those active contrac- 
tions of their vermicular muscles that are so important in secur- 
ing a downward progress of f;rcal products. It will also aid in 
the free escape of the destructive intestinal gases, that otherwise 
would pervade the system and seriously affect the blood and for- 
mative fluids of the system, vitiating all the secretions, caus- 
ing torpidity of the liver and bilious derangements, and inciting 
causes of general disease. 

In a Constipated Condition of the Bowels the tendencies to 
putrefactive and putrescent changes are increased by these re- 
tained noxious gases. They also paralyze functional action and 
produce nausea, dyspepsia, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism 
and nervousness. They pass through the tissues of the bowels 
into other channels and cavities, produce pressure and pains 
in the side, chest and back, oppress respiration, heart and 
us action, and thus induce palpitation, vertigo, and 
the unpleasant sensations of sickness of every form. They 
produce unbalanced circulation and disturb the functional ac- 
tions generally throughout the system. They not only interfere 
with nutritive absorption, active assimilation and tissue change, 
but they retard the depuration of morbid products of every de- 
scription and they lay the foundation of general paralysis and de- 
bility. They prevent the active llow of bile and other intestinal 
secretions which are unnaturally retained in the system to under- 
go decomposing morbid changes that develop still more active 
poisons. These are also absorbed by the blood to oppress and 
still farther interfere with its natural circulation and the general 
processes of aggregation and segregation, so as to corrupt every 
fluid and every tissue with the poisons of disease. The con- 
tinued decomposition of morbid products retained in the ali- 
mentary tract constantly increases the volume and virulency of 
these noxious internal gases that at last become the poisonous 
waves of death. Nature institutes channels of escape for these 



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putrid gases, sometimes by those fluxes that take place below 
their sources, namely, the constipated portions of the bowels, 
the distension of which prevents both circulation and natural 
contractile expulsive action weakening the whole of the lower 
intestines. Tenesemus and pain result from the consequent 
peristaltic disturbance and diarrhoea or dysentery is manifested 
as the efforts of nature to expel the irritant matter in the lower 
portion of the bowels below the constipation. What is required 
to remove such disease is an antiseptical solvent that has per- 
meating power to institute thorough continuous channels, so that 
not only the obstructions but also the waste of decomposition 
with its putrid gases shall be disinfected and evacuated from 
the intestinal tract as fast as it accumulates, until finally all de- 
composing accumulations either hard or soft shall be expelled 
from the system. 

Such a Solving and Cleansing Process stays the process of 

disease until its causes are removed, enabling the physician to 
control the morbid forces of disease and keep the system improv- 
ing until a perfect recovery takes place. 

A Natural Cathartic by its solvent and active properties incites 
an easy expulsion of the faecal obstructions and noxious gases. 
It restores natural circulation, contractility and healthy secre- 
tions to the whole alimentary tract, and institutes through the 
blood, depuration and restorative changes that prevent and 
overcome disease. 

It demonstrates the value of the conservation of vital forces 
which is so generally disregarded in medical practice. 

All the Popular Antiphlogistics, Alteratives and Tonics either 
antagonize or exhaust the powers of life, but such a natural re- 
storative evacuant increases them, and while it aids nature to 
expel burdens, it supplies exhaustions and sends natural ele- 
ments and forces through the blood to the nervous system and 
the tissues, to give vigor and health. 

When Even a Fetid Death-Like Odor announces the fatal effect 



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of internal life-destroying gases resulting from protracted de- 
composition, and the eyes grow dim and the stomach revolts 
against nourishment, a large draught of this evacuant water of 
life can be taken without nausea. For from the nascent libera- 
tion of oxygen, it disinfects by its evolution of ozone the putrid 
fluids and all the offending gases of disease, and robs the angel 
of death of a victim that seemed firmly bound in his grasp, 
strength revives, the eyes grow bright, circulation, sleep, and 
appetite return to prove that a natural evacuant and vitalizer 
is a boon demanded by nature in her struggles with disease. 

It also Proves that disease and death are chiefly due to the 
culmination of changes in these deadly gases that increase in 
quantity and pernicious power until they ultimately destroy the 
vitality of the blood, and finally check respiration and the action 
of the heart. This natural cathartic that possesses sob ent, 
strengthening, antiseptic and restorative properties, promptly 
removes these fatal causes, as it may also be used in smaller 
doses as an alterative invigorator. It strengthens every function 
of elimination and is important for diseases of the bowels such 
as diarrluea, dysentery, piles and hemorrhoids which are gen- 
erally treated, irrationally and unsuccessfully, with astringents 
and opiates, as for all those diseases that arise from the various 
retained visceral accumulations which favor all those processes 
of diseased action so inimical to life. 

For the Want of Such a Solvent and Strengthening Cathartic, 
which can be used in large doses perseverin^iy without exhaust- 
ing the patient, the use of general cathartics, which are painful 
and exhausting, is generally discontinued before all the serious 
offending contents of the bowels are removed, and therefore the 
causes of the disease are not dislodged. On account of their 
evil and manifestly depressing effects, these cathartics cannot be 
persistently continued as could the one referred to, which has 
no weakening or unpleasant effects. A partial evacuation of 
the bowels such as ordinary cathartic treatment only secures 



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seldom prevents the progress of severe attacks of disease. It is 
only when a general resonance of the entire abdominal region is 
known to exist by palpation (a method of examination which 
is unwarrantedly neglected) that a reasonable hope of success 
in the removal of the causes of disease or that certainty of a 
speedy cure can be entertained. The ordinary use of cathartics 
only serves to dislodge matter most easily removed from those 
parts of the bowels were muscular activity has not been lost. 
They form only channels through the contents of inactive portions 
that are closed by solid faeces which fill up afterward, and these 
portions remain obstructed in disease. 

The location of persistent constipations and the particular 
diseases that result from them in their various positions in the 
bowels are easily learned by close observation and ever}' physi- 
cian should study the rational methods of preventing and over- 
coming them. 

The Alimentary Tract being the conservator of life, is also 
the seat of disease. Consequently remedies effective to over- 
come disease and re-establish the forces of life, are those that 
restore the stomach and bowels to a normal condition. Hence 
a natural evacuant and restorative that commences its curative 
work in the stomach, and then cleanses the bowels, and by ab- 
sorption to the whole system through the blood, reaches every 
condition of disease, re-organizes health}' action in every tissue 
of the entire body, becomes both curative and reconstructive in 
every sense. 

For Overcoming the General Causes of Acute Diseases, for 
jugulating or rapidly aborting them, a strengthening antiseptic 
cathartic becomes a discovery of incomparable value, because 
it can be used as frequently and freely as the severity of the 
case demands. It reduces all impactions and all the concretions 
to a semi-fluid state, especially those which persistently remain 
in the convoluted recesses of the bowels generally undissolved 
even after the ordinary cathartic action has been secured. This 



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restorative cathartic dissolves, expels and strengthens, and 
therefore may be perseveringly used until all morbific obstruc- 
tions are removed and diseases disappear. Not only is it effica- 
cious in severe conditions of disease but it removes the causes 
of slight indisposition and quickly restores the system to proper 
action without any unpleasant sensation or result. This thor- 
oughly antiseptic cathartic, if used with a perseverance not prac- 
ticable with any other medicine, removes all noxious conditions 
that result from intestinal obstructions, as well as the depraved 
and decomposing exudations that accumulate upon mucous and 
serous surfaces. 

This Evacuant thoroughly cleanses the system of all un- 
healthy fluids and gaseous products. It eradicates from every 
part of the system disease-producing accumulations and thus 
prepares the absorptive tissues to receive the life-supporting 
chemical elements which this evacuant contains. It enables the 
blood which is purified and supplied with its natural elements and 
forces to reconstruct all diseased tissues, and to carry healthy 
vigor to every organ and channel of life. 

Disinfection and a copious supply of water in drains and 
sewers are not more important in preventing disease, than is a 
harmless, antiseptic, restorative cathartic to dissolve, counteract 
and remove the solid, fluid and gaseous intestinal tilth which, 
confined by constipation, becomes a general source of disease. 

The conclusion is inevitable, that a preparation which over- 
comes the potent causes of disease and increases vital forces, is 
indispensable to the healthy condition of body and mind. 

It certainly meets the demands of brain-labor, which espec- 
ially requires relief from the vitiated contaminations of pent-up 
poison, that through the nervous system interfere with mental 
processes and destroy mental and physical powers. 

The Demand of the Human System for a large number of ac- 
tive constructive organic elements often necessitates its use per- 
severingly, in obstinate cases, where a continued supporting 



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cathartic action is needed in order to overcome and remove 
causes of severe mental or physical depression, debility, weak- 
ness and prostration. Such a vitalizing evacuant, diluted with 
either hot or cold water as the case may require, becomes a bev- 
erage that is gratefully received by the patient. Large draughts 
remove unpleasant sensations, by expelling the causes from the 
system, they also afford oxygenic power to strengthen the circu- 
lation and give new life to the suffering. 

The significance of natural antiseptic corrective medicine is 
demonstrated in infancy by overcoming the pain and restlessness 
that causes crying and the distortion of the muscles of the face, 
securing that condition of repose and that harmony of develop- 
ment natural to infants in perfect physical conditions which 
causes children to become beautiful in features and expression. 

The same principle follows in the growth of children to ma- 
turity with such constant attending influences upon body and 
mind to produce an entrancing physical rotundity and su- 
perior facial lines of beauty combining intellectual and emo- 
tional expression. These effects are secured from the ozonic 
waves of life that dissipate and destroy the poisonous, irritating 
vapors of disease banishing the sensations of sickness and pain 
as the sun dispels the chilly mists of the night. 

The Ethics of Natural Medicine. In my apology for a con- 
tinued repetition of the essential factors in the production 
of disease and the certain principles available for their 
permanent cure, it is fit that I explain why a sense of duty 
has constrained me to dwell to such an extent upon the serious- 
ness of retained internal noxious gases and upon the value 
of a restorative cathartic which contains the saline ele- 
ments of the blood and forces of vitality locked up in its 
combination. It has been done to furnish a rational basis for 
medicine, with the expectation that the intelligent vanguard 
of rational progress may force the medical profession to break 



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the shackles of dogmatic authority which have prevented both 
logical investigation and the freedom of a pure and rational phil- 
osophy in medicine. 

Professional Liberty is the first requisite for scientific reforma- 
tion in medical practice. It will alone sanction those chemical 
medicines which a scientific knowledge of the processes of life 
requires, and which contain elements in such combination as 
will eradicate the causes of disease, and supply organic forces 
for the purpose of aiding nature under all its burdens. 

Chemistry is taught in the medical colleges without even the 
pretense that all medicines should be practically adapted to the 
chemical requirements of disease or the chemical necessities of 
health, and consequently it is an adornment to a professional 
reputation, of little practical value, since it gives little authority 
to medicine as a science, and is not of value to the physician or 
patient, however indispensable to success in medicine. 

The Ethics of the Medical Profession demand that not only 
every formula but that the chemical combinations through all 
stages of every preparation should be given to them. My apol- 
ogy for deferring such valuable information until it will be kindly 
received from a scientific interest in the principles involved in- 
stead of being treated as a delusion, is based not only upon op- 
portunities for extensive test cases of curative demonstration, 
but also upon collegiate opportunities for teaching principles of 
natural medicine, which are opposed to those that have univer- 
sally pervaded medical practice. Making no compromise with 
the irrational therapeutics of general medicine, I have been ob- 
liged to burn all the bridges I have heretofore crossed, in order 
to arrive at positive knowledge. My experiments in combining 
organic chemical elements that easily separate — in the system — 
to evolve vital forces have been made without the sanction or 
encouragement of the medical profession, and in compara- 
tive obscurity, and in a new direction. My aim has been 
the production and application of such combinations as 



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would contain natural elements and forces that would aid 
nature to gain supremacy over disease. Such a proceeding 
never having received the sanction of the renowned leaders 
of the medical profession, the publication of experiments 
(of the chemical process) and formulas without wide world 
demonstration would have . benefited neither the physician 
nor his ardent worshipper, for each would have treated 
them as visionary and impracticable, and like the sower's seed 
which fell upon stony places where it had not much earth, they 
would have had no root, and would have been of no service to 
the world. My experience with a restorative evacuant, which is 
a fortunate combination apparently demanding no improvement, 
and without objections, has suggested that there are no limits 
to the progress of science in explaining the mysteries of disease 
or the mysteries of nature. It has opened the doors of investi- 
gation into the mysteries of life by its practical use and has dem- 
onstrated that the forces of life may be increased, so as to over- 
come all conditions of disease. This demonstrated must event- 
ually have its effect in inducing progressive physicians to adopt 
a rational science, as a basis for their researches into the possi- 
bilities of natural medication. A restorative evacuant affords 
this satisfaction : that it overcomes fatigue, gives energy to 
mind and body, vigor to the aged, and strengthens every func- 
tion of life. 

It is Beneficent in Securing the Pleasure of Success in Life by 
protracting it, and by overcoming obstacles to the perfect action 
of body and mind. Its importance is not less significant in pre- 
venting the diseases of infancy and childhood that have a serious 
effect upon the physical and mental habits of later years. It also 
secures the satisfaction of thorough sustenance and growth and a 
constant condition of youthful happiness, that not only insures 
general development but beaut)' of feature and expression such as 
nature always wears when relieved from the impress of pain and 
suffering. It is difficult to estimate the economic value of a natural 



restorativethat prevents sickness and suffering, that increases years 
of usefulness, that saves days, weeks and months of watchful 
care over prostrated cases of illness, and loss of time from the 
pursuits and pleasures of existence, and that transfers the great 
expense of employing family physicians to the purposes of thrift 
and the means to make independence a common boon to man- 
kind. 

Gold and silver cannot measure the value of a universal 
remedy that cheaply and quickly overcomes not only all tenden- 
cies to disease but all general forms of sickness, and that is in 
harmony with the instincts and demands of nature and is certain 
in its ministrations to all unnatural conditions of life. It is also 
certain in producing the same beneficial results upon ever} - in- 
dividual because its aids all of nature's cheerful forces and sus- 
tains the emotions of pleasure that tend to development. 

Its value in rapidly removing morbid and poisonous gases 
from the system, and as a means for overcoming oppression, as 
it changes the activities that produce disease to those of health, 
is fully demonstrated by the sensation of relief which it creates, 
as though it were driving away the foul gaseous shadow of death 
with its enrapturing glow of vitality. It cannot fail to suggest 
the superiority of vitalized restorative elements over stimulants, 
in those cases when the flickering lamp of life is about to go out 
for the want of the ozonicand supporting force, which this liquid 
life affords when assimilating nutriment is also judiciously given. 



THE URGENT DEMAND FOR A REVOLUTION IN MEDICINE. 

The most essential service the physician can render his 
patient is to remove all morbid accumulations and the waste of 
tissues from every part of the human system without depletion, 
while at the same time he aids the vital powers, by supplying 
supporting elements to the circulation, instead of simply fighting 



symptoms, by those specifics which may or may not find the 
elements as a basis of nervous power in the blood necessary to 
secure the result desired of the specific. Knowledge of 
the sources of disease is of no less moment than the discovery 
of available means to remove the main cause. Any one may 
learn to sound the abdomen by laying the fingers of the left 
hand flat upon it, and then striking them forcibly with the tips 
of the fingers of the right hand. The impaction or inactive con- 
stipated region will be indicated by the dead dull sound pro- 
duced. Here is where the intestines are crowded full, so that 
the intestinal gases and fluids do not pass downward through 
them, but are forced to permeate the tissues, thus producing 
the varied manifestations by the course they take which are de- 
nominated symptoms of disease. 

Fomentations and kneading of these portions, together 
with the persevering and free use of this solving and strengthen- 
ing cathartic will never fail to unlock these closed gates, and by 
maintaining healthy conditions in the intestinal tract, send new 
life to every part of the human system. 

Symptoms Of Disease are the advanced couriers of nature that 
give information concerning the foes of life. They plead as best 
they can for rational intelligence and analytical discernment on 
the part of the physician, that will secure scientific skill and 
such uniformity of success as the age demands for conquering 
all disease. 

Pain is the call of nature for assistance in removing causes 
of inflammation from the nerves. To confess ignorance of the 
means which will safely and effectually overcome those causes, 
and to proceed to stifle the voice of suffering by narcotics is only 
to throttle with a murderous hand and give a stone for bread. 

Restless Nervousness is only the expressed wretchedness of 
exhausted nervous forces, the need is a restorative supply of 
elements that will re-establish energy and the vital sources of 
physical and nervous power necessary for mental equilibrium 



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and consequent contentment and pleasure. Nervous sedatives 
and quietants when used only produce a lethean slumber, that 
is but a procrastinating delusion, which ignores the demand of 
nervous sustenance. 

The Pangs Of Suffering that have been voiced by the victims 
of narcotics, nervines and stimulants, like the wail of eternal 
despair, plead at the throne of justice in vain for revenge upon 
the popular system of medicine and its devotees who have filled 
the land with fettered slaves of habit, whose only hope of deliv- 
erance is the grave. Yet with all the known fatalities and in- 
juries that result from the use of this class of medicines they 
are yet greedily sought for by the popular medical practitioners 
of the age. 

The Humanitarian will vainly plead that harmless medicine 
should overcome the causes of suffering so long as rational 
causes are overlooked, and there is no r< ward offered for efforts 
to originate natural medicines that are effective and safe. Such 
effort would result in professional denunciation and sarcasm, as 

I know from personal experience with my medical brethren, be- 
cause the precedents laid down for ages by medical authority 
prevent the dignity of an assumption in this direction, and much 
more an opportunity for demonstration. The cry of disease and 
suffering humanity revibrates in dismal wails over the continued 
wrecks of medical failures. " Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is 
there no physician there," upon whom I may calmly rest my 
anxieties in the joyous hope of life ? This answer from the 
medical profession comes to chill the innate struggle for life. 

II Our medicines are the enemies of life. Poisons we skillfully 
use to combat your enemies, the diseases of mankind, but we 
know nothing about positively safe and effectual medicines that 
will always cure, and never kill. We know nothing about life ; 
it is a mystery. We only seek to cure the diseases as enemies 
that pray upon the human system." They egotistically make 
this thrust of ignorance against the teachings of nature that all 



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organisms result from certain elements and forces, and science 
is thus crucified by dogmatic authority. 



THE PLEA OF SCIENCE FOR CHEMICAL LIFE. 

The organic nature of plants and vegetables has been rec- 
ognized by the scientific agriculturist, who successfully improves 
the vigor and qualities of his crops, by introducing into the soil 
chemical elements not already found. The mystery of vegetable 
life has not been a subject forbidden to reason and common 
sense, or to the discoveries and applications of science. No 
superstitious medical monks control scientific farming. Conse- 
quently the plant that is sickly is treated with a combination of 
elements that are natural to it, and which give it vigor and life 
by a chemical enrichment of the soil 'from which it draws its 
nourishment. 

The Devotees of Science and Medicine have been forced to stand 
aloof from each other, because their methods were antagonistic. 
While science maintained precise and certain results as a basis 
of all knowledge, physicians only claimed theoretical and experi- 
mental knowledge with uncertain results. The scientist has 
sought fields of usefulness where he was not fettered by the 
tyranny of dogmatic assumption, which is as cruel to him as it 
is to the medical investigator, who dares to be free in his search 
for knowledge. In this natural conflict the meek mediator, the 
chemical pharmacist propitiates the wrath of the Gods of medi- 
cine by the inventions of chemical poisons for medicine ; at the 
same time timidly placing upon the altar of science antiseptics, 
the active principles of specifics and chemical food, and cries to 
both good Lord and good devil as he lays up treasures upon 
< arth with no thought for the hereafter of medicine as a perfect 
science. 



It is not a Difficult Matter tor the scientific pharmacist physi- 
cian to originate any effective and safe medicine required, or an- 
alyze my combinations. But he is prevented by the ethics of 
medicine from even solving the problems of life or the encroach- 
ment of disease by scientific methods of inquiry that are philoso- 
phic and independent of the superstitious creeds of medical au- 
thority. Hence it is not strange that the ignorance of the reg- 
ular physician should extend to the real causes of disease as well 
as to the combinations of organic elements in medicine that will 
overcome those causes and aid the powers of life. 

Rest is Recognized as Indispensable to the victim of overwork 
and mental exhauston, so that nature may have an opportunity 
to restore, in her own way. the loss. This is an admission that 
nature cures when she has the proper aid, and is a strong argu- 
ment for a medicine which aids all the processes of nature, and 
is more powerfully restorative than rest or sleep to both physi- 
cal and mental forces. 



SCIENCE THE NECESSITY OF PROGRESS. 

The mysteries of the past are dissolving before the march 
of science. The principles of natural forces have been dis- 
covered and applied to explosives, to locomotion and machinery 
as well as to the production of light. The range of the senses 
has extended, the intellect has been stimulated, knowledge is 
being rapidly disseminated over the world. To the student of 
nature the elements contain latent forces of unlimited power 
which need only to be developed by the sagacity of scientific in- 
vention to become available for all the necessities of mankind in 
health or disease. 

Electricity was a Mystery, when Volta discovered that it was 
evolved by the action of acids upon metals, in which oxygen then 



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seemed the procuring element of this wonderful force. It is a 
mystery still, but science has utilized laws and relations until a 
great force of nature has become most valuable in its service to 
mankind. The forces of nature that are centered in the human 
organism embrace a range of activity that proceeds from com- 
pounds of metals and oxygen which are full of latent power for 
organic action. 

Sodium, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium and Phosphorous as 
well as Sulphur, Iron and Carbon, have such powerful affinities for 
oxygen, the priestess mother of life, that they seem to demand 
their natural and proportionate place in the blood, as the royal 
train that ministers at her sacred shrine. Then why should this 
mystery of chemico-electrical life be less a study, than electricit}' 
applied to the arts ? Life depends upon elements and their com- 
binations, which present to it the largest range of natural 
sources, and the fewest obstacles that interfere with its delicate 
sensibilities. It chooses its own methods cf overcoming obsta- 
cles to healthy action, and insists upon those supplies that are 
not only natural in elements but abundant in the forces which 
organic action requires. 

The Responsibility of the Physician requires not only a knowl- 
edge of the practical application of the elements and forces of 
life, but a sacred caution in the use of medicines, which in any 
way obstruct or destroy the operative forces of life, and espec- 
ially of those that paralyze functional nerves and exhaust organic 
elements. It is through vital processes of chemical digestion 
that all forms of nutriment are finally brought first to a fluid and 
then to a gaseous condition. 

It is the Ultimate Gaseous and Electrical Principles of Life that 
food and medicines contain which make either available to the 
purposes of the human system. Oxygen is the active mediating 
principle of organic change. It brings into service all elements 
that minister to the need of healthy growth and vigor. It gen- 
erates the electrical forces of vitality that are combined with the 



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metallic elements of organism. It unites with carbon, elements 
to form carbonic acid gas which is constantly produced by the 
chemical changes of circulation. It is lost with the carbon in 
respiration only to receive larger volumes fresh from the air. 
The hydrogen of water unites with carbon in the system to form 
flesh, and nitrogen enters into complex combinations in the pro- 
duction of tissues, to equalize the activity of oxygenic change 
in the combinations of aggregative sustenance and of seggrega- 
tive disorganization with proteid elements. 

There is no Avocation More Sacred than that of the physician 
in whose hands are placed the lives, the happiness and welfare 
of his patients. His position in society involves an intelligent 
and consecrated responsibility and demands his most earnest 
efforts to bring order out of confusion in medical practice. 
Consequently he cannot if educated stand before the mirror of 
nature free from the pangs of remorse, when he neglects the 
petitions of the medical philanthropist unless he lacks the most 
essential quality of his profession, an interest in the rational 
and practical advancement of medicine, as a science. 

That egotistical stupidity and arrogance which lead the 
physician to boast of his ignorance concerning the elemental 
sources of life, must inexcusably compromise the dignity of the 
medical profession, which claiming to be an authorative necessity 
of civilization, yet ignores the natural fundamental elements of 
medicine as a science. That timid repugnance which the general 
physician manifests toward the investigation of nature's modes 
of action, which would encourage the use of natural medical 
restoratives does not prevent boldness in persisting to grope on 
in Egyptian darkness, away from the light of science, insisting 
upon the use of poisons while he continues from year to year to 
stumble over the skeletons of the victims of his own ignorance. 
This obstinacy exhibits servility to an authority whose edicts 
demand recognition through the tyranny of custom that exalts 
assumption over scientific progress. 



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NATURE'S ETHICS. 

Compensation which is the practical essence of justice de- 
mands a commensurate return to the human system of all the 
elements and forces of life which are exhausted by medicine. It 
is a robbery to take away from the citadel of life its most reliable 
of defenses without adequate recompense. Those who meekly 
submit to authorized methods of medical larceny jeopardize 
their lives in the hands of protected criminals against nature's 
laws. He who uses poisonous medicines which destroy the 
natural forces of life is not less responsible because the process 
may be slow, than he would be if it were instantaneous. Justice 
allows no mitigating excuses for the crimes of propagated ignor- 
ance, though they may be licensed by medical authority, or pro- 
fessional policy. It absolutely forbids the use of poisons as a 
wrong against nature and human life. 

The Instincts of the Brute Creation protect and preserve their 
health and their senses seem keen to avoid poisons. Knowledge 
and experience should not produce less caution in man. The 
kind consideration and almost worship extended to physicians 
by great and good minds are based upon what the profession 
should be, in its position of honor and service. Hence it can 
scarcely be construed as slanderous, harsh or pessimistic to con- 
trast the evils and errors of the past and present with the bright 
future when nature and science shall coincide. Not only should 
newly discovered truth be contrasted with error, but error should 
be so plainly indicated as to prevent careless routine and ignor- 
ant disregard of the most sacred of all rights, those that pertain 
to life. The quality and healthful action of fluids, tissues and 
organs, always depend upon the organic quality of the blood. 
The emotions and the intellectual and moral faculties are also 
subject to the vitality of the blood. Hence the importance of 
studious attention to the relation of a sound mind to perfect 
physiological conditions. 



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The Quality of Blood is as much dependant upon proper medi- 
cines as it is upon proper food and proper physiological habits. 

Unnatural Medicine deteriorates the blood and disturbs the 
proper relation of its elements to the tissues of the system and 
thus institutes a condition of impurity, resulting from imposi- 
tions upon the natural cleansing process of nature, as well as 
upon the blood itself. That morbid condition of the blood 
which disturbs the functions of the skin and mucous surfaces in 
eruptive diseases, or produces false membranes in croup and 
diphtheria, is corrected by a free use of e restorative preparation 
which quickly solves and removes all arterial obstructions that by 
their continued presence affect the proper circulation of the blood 
in these tissues. It institutes also an elastic contractility in the 
bowels, that secures a downward progress of virulent intestinal 
gases, thus removing all permeating ethereal tissue impurities, 
enabling the blood to absorb such elements from the restorative 
as tend to overcome the virulent character of these diseases. 

When any Portion of the- Bowels has lost their elastic contractil- 
ity so that there is no downward escape of the intestinal gases 
there remains a fruitful cause of all chronic affections, which 
can only be removed by a persevering use of this vitalizing sol- 
vent. The value of this reconstructive vitalizer which removes 
obstructions as certain means of assistance against disease is 
demonstrated beyond question by its power to overcome and 
prevent the incubative development pertaining to exanthemous 
diseases by destroying the morbid cultures in which the bacteria 
are propogated. Whooping cough, measles, scarlatina and 
small pox are aborted by using this preparation freely in their 
nrst stages. As a prophylactic it possesses principles that are 
equally powerful to prevent pestilential epidemics and the ma- 
larial and endemic scourges that so frequently baffle sanitary and 
disinfectant efforts. 

Yellow Fever and Cholera are not exceptions to its potent effi- 
cacy. The certainty of controlling and checking their ravages 



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by this comparatively unknown preparation has only to be full) 
demonstrated by giving it that candid attention which its unfail- 
ing success demands. In the hands of every physician, or of 
every man, woman and child it is a safe and easy experiment 
that justice requires should be made for the most sacred interests 
of mankind. Discoveries like diamonds uncut may be for a long 
time unnoticed, until the genius of some great artist finds oppor- 
tunity to bring theni before the world. 

The Perfect Mellenium of Physical Happiness has never been 
prophesied by the sages of medicine nor have they made those 
achievements to aid nature that would give them exultant hopes 
for the future of medical science. Why then may they not study 
nature's methods and her imperative demands, and with one 
bold effort throw the rubbish of past ages behind them, take one 
step forward in the great march of human science and the phil- 
osophy of life, and be men in fellowship with nature. Let their 
analytical researches be followed by synthetical application to 
formulate medicine natural to life and its needs. 

The Progressive Significance of Such Efforts may be laudably 
justified by the fact that their theories of disease neither coincide 
with nature or science and that disintegration is certain to make 
its sad havoc upon old institutions of learning and that it is only 
a question of time when medicine will be thoroughly revolu- 
tionized by the criticisms of independent investigators of the 
problems of human life. 

The Significant Failures in their medical treatment (by the 
most learned physicians), of female diseases, suggest that nature 
must eventually be consulted for successful means to restore 
power, activity and perfect functional conditions in the reproduc- 
tive organs. These diseases have originated in conditions of 
intestinal inactivity inducing diseased circuits of circulation from 
retained morbid products, the first cause of general debility and 
nervous exhaustion. 

To restore vigor and nervous power, to the tissues, consti- 



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pation in the lower bowels and those diseased currents it pro- 
duces must be overcome and a thorough alterative resolution se- 
cured by such natural medicine as shall furnish the chemical or- 
ganic elements which the sexual organs require. The value of 
restorative medicines is thus demonstrated by their ability to pre- 
vent and cure female diseases, and to restore vigor and nervous 
power to the reproductive functions. As a consequence of both 
a general and special functional debility through the weakened 
nerves, the muscles and ligaments become relaxed and their elas- 
tic contractile power of supporting the organs which should be 
firmly held by them in proper position is destroyed. The loss 
of this contractile power, which preserves the permanent 
strength and purity of all of the tissues, allows displacement 
that cause a continued strain upon the relaxed suspensory sup- 
ports, hindering circulation and proper tissue change and pro- 
ducing irritations degraded fluxes, and ulcerations as a result of 
exhaustions which increase with the attendant nervous suffering. 
The persistent maladies which arise from the neglect of thorough 
restorative and strengthening medicines in these diseases have 
convinced the most advanced and thoughtful physicians that 
caustics and mechanical supports have been of no avail, and 
that the medical practioners have blundered in their indecent 
methods of torturing the female sex with no satisfactory results. 

It is a significant fact that some of the most learned and 
prominent professors of gynecology are now publicly confessing 
and bewailing their sins through the medical journals, and turn- 
ing to restorative methods, as the only practical means of cure. 

The Reproductive System necessarily receives its energy from 
the perfect correspondence that exists in all the active powers of 
the animal economy to the concentration of the organic elements 
and nervous forces that properly maintain thepropagative annex 
of life for the preservation of vigor and the perpetuity of the 
race. 

Consequently the perfection and healthy conditions of pro- 



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geny can be secured only through an exaltation of organic activity 
by restorative vitalizers which overcome debility and disease of 
the sexual organs, and meet the demands of all the functions 
of life. It is to the absence of such sources of organic power 
in the specifics so generally used that sexual weakness and other 
disorders which they do not reach end in physical and nervous 
debility. 

The scientific adaptation to the demands of animal life and 
intellectual activity of powerful medicine free from useless and 
burdensome or injurious elements, has not hitherto entered into 
the department of hygiene, and much less into the province of 
medical science. The life long struggles of the nervous forces 
against imperfect and burdensome nutrition and the inward foes 
to life which they produce without assistance by natural medi- 
cines even in comparatively health} 7 organisms has been over- 
looked, still this expenditure of vital energy is constantly less- 
ening the cumulative power and strength of the human system, 
shattering the constitution and robbing it of that perfection 
which gives the pleasure of healthful progeny as well as length 
of life. The quality and progress of the human race depend 
upon its sources and environments. So the " survival of the 
fittest" is insured not only by the stamina and force of hereditary 
power but also by the sustenance and habits that are in best 
accord with the highest demands of life. 

Civilization is Leaving the Store House of Treasures that nature 
affords and starves upon husks that do not supply the organic 
nature of man with pure and unadulterated sustenance. Science 
must come to the aid of physical and mental wrecks to restore 
their energy by a supply of those inorganic chemical elements 
which secure the organic changes that all chemical nutrition 
must undergo before it can maintain functional activity in every 
department of the living laboratory of the human system. 

It is a matter of the utmost importance that a revolution 
should take place in the treatment of all forms of chronic dis 



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ease requiring vitalizing and restorative elements for the blood, 
in order to secure thorough circulatioh and perfect tissue change, 
and thus to overcome diseased tissues, abnormal growths or ex- 
hausting discharges, and produce a healthy condition in every 
part of the body. 

Dropsy, rheumatism, asthma, eruptions, ulcers, tumors, 
deafness, chronic inflammations) diabetis, cancerous growths. 
enlargements, atrophy, paralysis, general debility, impotency and 
sterility all demand powerful and natural restorative medicine. 

Albuminuria or Bright's Disease, a malady which is not only 
serious, but generally fatal under the most perfected methods of 
specific treatment, yields to this restorative method, because all 
the fluids are corrected and degenerative tissues are reconstruct- 
ed, through the general change that is effected in digestion, as- 
similation and natural elimination of morbid elements. 

Scrofulous Abscesses that have made havoc upon the bones, 

and which continue to return at intervals until the blood seems 

filled with scrofulous matter which by expectoration and copious 

discharges produces emaciation and inflammatory suffering, have 

entirely cured by this means and its effectiveness has been 

gnally demonstrated as to excite wonder by its miraculous 
power over the severed dissolutions of disease. 



THE REFORMATORY TENDENCIES OF NATURAL MEDICINE. 

The success of one alterating and vitalizing general restor- 
ative which produces such unexampled satisfaction in every con- 
dition and form of private disease, demonstrates that the popu- 
lar plan of treating these diseases with mercury, iodine and ex- 
haustive alteratives, has been entirely opposite to that which a 
rational study of these diseases should have suggested. For in 
no form of disease is there demanded more attention to natural 
alteration, and to tissue-elements in the medicine that are com- 
plete in their restorative character. This evacuant restorative 



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not only constantly eliminates easily from the blood, fluids and 
tissues, the different forms of all destructive organic poison 
which has resulted from these most serious and corroding de- 
compositions of active concentrated organic elements, but it 
robs the system of the fluid cultures of bacterial life, by its anti- 
septic check against disorganization, while it also institutes 
through the blood and fluids a powerful vital resistance to the 
inroads of these diseases that prey upon the tissues of the 
system. 

The Intelligence Of the Age demands a thorough scientific med- 
ical education which will not excuse the physician for his ignor- 
ance of the organic changes produced by disease, or of the chem- 
ical nature of the medicine required to produce desired results. 

His familiarity with the prescriptions that are changed at 
every visit, to impress the patient with the experimental re- 
sources of uncertain medicines, must cease to be regarded as 
evidence of rational medical skill and knowledge. The progress 
of the age is prolific of practical scientific improvement in all the 
arts, except the art of treating disease, but it is patiently waiting 
for a dawn of rationality in the theory and practice of medicine, 
which will conform it to the principles of science, and satisfy all 
inquiries about disease. 

Ponce De Leon could endure the hardships of a pioneer in 
his search over high mountains, and through far reaching val- 
leys, for a fountain whose waters should sparkle with the crys- 
talline elements of life, only because he was impressed with the 
general uniformity and exactness of nature's laws, that require 
chemical elements and vital principles for the support of vege- 
table and animal existence. 

All this he hoped to find in in the waters of some mineral 
spring or fountain. There was too broad a chasm between food 
and medicinal specifics to satisfy this earnest investigator of 
nature's laws, and his ardent hopes centered in the discovery of 
some powerful liquid that should contain the concentrated ele- 



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merits and forces of life. All the mineral and vegetable com- 
pounds he knew had deluded the hopes of all those who believed 
that there was a certain specific cure for every disease, either in 
the vegetable kingdom or from among the minerals of the earth; 
and yet his ardent intuitive aspiration led him over the sea to a 
new world to seek for nature's certain fundamental spring that 
held the principles of life. But modern aspirations for discov- 
eries which minister to the powers of life, and overcome disease, 
are opposed by the bold illogical medical assumption, that every 
known poison has a therapeutical value, in a legitimate form of 
corrective penalty, which is supposed by the physician to be 

;sary to inllict upon nature in order to prostrate and scourge 
the powers of life in order to release the demon of disease, before 
they can be permitted to make a healthful effort for salvation. 

All Those Superstitious Myths of Medical Literature had then 
origin in an irrational age in which a profound ignorance ex- 
isted concerning organic chemical processes and physiological 
law. Akin to these are volumes of ancient medical literature 
that contain traditions and fallacies which are handed down from 
professors of medicine to physicians, and from physicians to the 
people, as the mysterious abstrusities of a scholastic profession, 
while they are so plainly of a conjectural nature, and so clouded 
with inconsistency and ignorance, that to a rational and philo- 
sophic mind they seem both foolish and absurd. They are so in- 
capable of explanation or demonstration that they induce a pro- 
fessional antipathy to all forms of physiological medical inquiry, 
lest the monumental authority of poisonous medication might 
sutler before iconoclastic investigations of a rational character. 
When inquisitive efforts are made to secure information, and they 
are repulsed by the physician, as presumptuous attempts to pur- 
loin the consecrated secrets of the medical profession, the intel- 
lectual inquirer, in the freedom of his manhood, revolts against 
the surveillance that is thus imposed upon his honest efforts for 
knowledge, and he deems it an unwarranted assumption in phy- 



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sicians to set up such dominating authority over the inquiries of 
progressive minds. 

Homeopathy, though it may have dispelled much of the fear 
of disgusting and distressing potions in the form of severe 
emetics or of the nauseating and painful cathartic experiences of 
repulsive medication, has instituted no means of thoroughly re- 
moving- the general causes of disease or of aiding nature to es- 
tablish conditions of vigor such as the perfection of the physical 
and mental constitution requires. 

In all Other Modern Departures from regular medicine the same 
most important consideration is overlooked. Hence all methods 
of modern origin have been partial and unsatisfactory. The 
methods of even modern restorative medicine have been both 
specialized and crude, so far as a practical supply of the most 
essential elements and principles are concerned, and the boasted 
methods ol jugulation have been as incomplete as they have 
been delusive. 

The Juggernaut Worship of the crude mysticisms of all unex- 
plainable systems of the past will soon necessarily yield to the 
relentless march of human progress, that seeks utility in every 
direction. 

Revolution in Medicine is demanded by the practical intelli- 
gence of the age, that is seeking light, safety and improvement, 
and it accepts with mental reservation the services of all forms 
of medical practice which are enveloped in unfathomable mys- 
tery. A scrutinizing fear of medicines is often manifested in the 
facial expressions of those who stand over their loved ones, 
which evidently annoys the physician, as it pathetically pleads 
for a method of treatment that will not embrace uncertain or 
dangerous remedies. 

THE ANTITHESIS AND CONCLUSION. 

Man turns from the gloom and sorrow of the sick room to 
the shady groves for meditation. He hears a chant of joy in the 



music of the insect world, cheerfulness and anthems of pleasure 
in the songs of the birds, and evidence of delight in the crowing 
and cackle of the fowls, in the neighing of the horse and the 
lowing of the cattle. There is a playful mirth among the fishes 
and reptiles that sport in the gurgling waters. 

In Nature, Health is the Rule, and sickness the exception. But 
when he turns his thought upon man, clothed with powers of in- 
tellect and moral sense as the sources of most exquisite and per- 
lect happiness, he finds him groping in tears, uttering sighs, and 
wearing weeds of sorrow and grief. Even the cottage of pleasure 
becomes a scene of gloom as the funeral procession of mourners 
moves slowly and sadly toward the grave to bury the loved ones 
who have become victims of disease. In the early ages of the 
world a nation mourned when a child sickened and died among 
the royal families of the kingdom. Physicians were almost un- 
known. Life was simple and free from the long catalogue of 
diseases, resulting from destructive medicines that have increased 
the maladies of mankind from age to a 

Plain and simple food was then used to sustain a life of 
simplicity, and physical labor was not exhausting, when 
nutrition was limited in its deleterious methods of complex prep 
aration to a natural appetite. The fruits of the earth supplied 
the necessary saline and acid elements for the solvent activity 
of the blood, and a life of physical exercise secured evacuation 
and tissue change. There was little use of medicine, when men 
only ate to live, but in this age of luxury, where they live to eat, 
and strain every nerve to its utmost tension, a natural supporting 
evacuant becomes necessary to aid nature in its struggles against 
the consequences of the exceedingly deleterious habits of modern 
society. The reconstructive elements of a natural medicine that 
overcomes all constitutional tendencies to disease, that es- 
tablishes vigor for organic purity and strength, are a plea for its 
use as a philanthropic agent in the preservation of the race. 

Benevolence and human sympathy demand it for the suffer- 



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ing and also for a reform in medical practice, which may turn 
back the tide of death and produce higher types of manhood 
with physical beauty and constitutional vigor, through its life- 
giving power. This one discovery that has turned medical dark- 
ness into light, that has so met the demands of the human sys- 
tem by preventing and overcoming disease, has not greater 
value in dispelling the gloom that surrounds the bed of sickness, 
than it has in inaugurating an era of progress in medicine which 
will tend to bring the boon of health to mankind. Then in the 
realms of an extatic philosophy the student of nature would find 
joyous paths, that extend to the temple of progressive medical 
science, where were displayed the illustrated mysteries of life 
and the trophies of a conflict and victory over the errors of learn- 
ing and the assumptions of ignorance that have dominated the 
medical profession in the treatment of disease. 

History Furnishes Examples of Heroic Men and Women, whose 
calm resignation arose from the hope of a surcease of sorrow in 
the grave, and a blissful immortality beyond it. But there is a 
grander consolation in the confidence of those benefactors who 
use a system of treating disease that is crowned with general 
success. It is a grateful and rapturous exaltation of the intel- 
lect and moral nature that brings forth benedictions upon those 
whose trophies in the warfare of nature and science are the lives 
they have saved and the years of youthful vigor they have added 
to declining years. 

The Principles of Natural Science give both ethical importance 
and satisfaction to the philosophies of rational therapeutics that 
insure their consideration among the intelligent masses of man- 
kind. 

It is Particularly Interesting to the practical utilitarian and phil- 
anthropist that a mission of devoted service to human sufferings 
which has been clouded with darkness, uncertainty and distrust 
should be illuminated with the bright sunshine of hope and con- 
fidence in the certainty of success in tli«- tre itment of disease. 



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It Brings to the Benevolent a fruitful field of usefulness and 
gives them a constant satisfaction in their humane and sympa- 
thetic ministrations to the poor, which not only secure health to 
the afflicted but also their heartfelt gratitude for the efforts that 
they have made to open the prison doors to human misery to 
the race. When they are encouraging the progress of medical 
science, they are supporting a practical realization of joy and 
happiness in the world through physical, mental and spiritual 
development. 




